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Right to Die or Duty to Live? The Problem of Euthanasia
Author(s) -
Gray William
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5930.00105
Subject(s) - duty , argument (complex analysis) , right to die , terminally ill , law , right to life , assisted suicide , resuscitation orders , philosophy , sociology , political science , law and economics , human rights , medicine , palliative care , nursing , emergency medicine , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , resuscitation
Argument about euthanasia in Australia intensified following the world’s first legal euthanasia death of Bob Dent under the Northern Territory’s short‐lived Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995. This paper takes stock of the implacably opposed positions on euthanasia following Bob Dent’s death, which provides a focus for the controversy, and identifies the key doctrines which separate adversaries in the euthanasia debate and their associated incommensurable intuitions.