Assertion: euthanasia | /r/HasProperty | justified
Facets:
value: in cases
type: TEMPORAL
value: morally
type: MANNER
value: if at all
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Euthanasia is Justified Euthanasia
text: under what circumstances can euthanasia be justifiable, if at all?
text: The fear that legalizing the practice, however rarely it might occur, could change our understanding of euthanasia and lead to a dangerous conceptual and practical slippery slope is stronger than the belief that euthanasia may be, in some cases at least, necessary and justified.
text: More people every day believe that euthanasia is justified.
text: This claim is non-viable because euthanasia is only justified in cases where the patients’ themselves want to end their lives.
text: Therefore, euthanasia is justified in cases where the patients are terminally ill as it relieves their prolonged pain, and if their death is a better option than keeping them alive then their opinion should be respected.
text: Euthanasia is justified in cases where palliative care for the terminally ill patients fails because keeping them alive on machines would be a vain attempt.
text: say[s] nothing about the norms and values associated with what is defined”, and that “whether or not euthanasia may be justified … is another matter
text: So, even as parents now justify abortion because “it’s really in the child’s best interests,” euthanasia can be justified as “they should be allowed to die with dignity” when the truth is “we don’t want to make the sacrifices of giving them the loving care they need.
text: There are two distinct questions: is Euthanasia morally justifiable, and should it be legalised.