Assertion: passive euthanasia | /r/HasProperty | permissible
Facets:
value: morally
type: MANNER
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
value: in certain situations
type: TEMPORAL
value: under this justification
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Denying that passive euthanasia is ever morally permissible suggests that we must always do everything we can to try to keep someone alive, even if they are miserable, want to die, and say so.
text: So, it seems that if passive euthanasia can be permissible, so can active.
text: The reason why passive (voluntary) euthanasia is said to be morally permissible is that the patient is simply allowed to die because steps are not taken to preserve or prolong life.
text: In certain situations, passive euthanasia ("letting die") is morally permissible.
text: In situations for which passive euthanasia is permissible under this justification, there are no morally sound reason for prohibiting active euthanasia, and in some cases, active euthanasia is morally preferable to passive euthanasia.
text: Naturally, few people advocate involuntary euthanasia, except where the cost of keeping someone alive is prohibitive (passive euthanasia may then be permissible where active euthanasia is not, but that has nothing to do with its being passive rather than active).
text: On this reading, all Rachels is saying is that if and when letting die is permissible, then so is killing, and that this means that if passive euthanasia is permissible, then so is active.
text: According to the traditional view, active euthanasia is morally forbidden, but passive euthanasia is morally permissible if certain conditions are present: the patient is terminal, death is imminent, treatment is judged extraordinary, and death is not directly intended or caused, but merely foreseen.
text: Passive euthanasia is sometimes morally permissible.