Physicians, assisted suicide, and the right to live or die

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 165-176

  Rhodes, Rosamond ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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3. James Rachels, "Active and Passive Euthanasia, "The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 292, No.2 (Jan. 9, 1975), pp. 78-80.
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5. Thomas D. Sullivan, "Active and Passive Euthanasia: An Impertinent Distinction, "Human Life Review, Summer 1977, pp. 40-46), I find Rachels' main point, that killing and letting die can be morally equivalent, is left unaffected by their remarks.
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