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Hard choices : how does injustice affect the ethics of medical aid in dying?

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KIOUS, Brent M.

Critics of medical aid in dying (MAID) often argue that it is impermissible because background social conditions are insufficiently good for some persons who would utilize it. I provide a critical evaluation of this view. I suggest that receiving MAID is a sort of "hard choice," in that death is prima facie bad for the individual and only promotes that person's interests in special circumstances. Those raising this objection to MAID are, I argue, concerned primarily about the effects of injustice on hard choices. I show, however, that MAID and other hard choices are not always invalidated by injustice and that what matters is whether the injustice can be remediated given certain constraints. Injustice invalidates a hard choice when it can, reasonably, be remedied in a way that makes a person's life go better. I consider the implications of this view for law and policy regarding MAID.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963180123000531

Voir la revue «Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics, 33»

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