Episode 4 – Part 2 - Physician Assisted Suicide, Voluntary Euthanasia, and Progress Dementia Disorder (PDD)
Episode 4 – Physician Assisted Suicide, Voluntary Euthanasia, and Progress Dementia Disorder (PDD)
In the second part of this two part interview, Dr. Toni Nicoletti interviews Mr. Samuel H. LiPuma, AssociateProfessor at Cuyahoga Community College and Dr. Joseph P. DeMarco, professor emeritus in philosophy at Cleveland State University, on their new book, The Dying Experience: Expanding Options for Dying and Suffering Patients. The episode begins with a discussion of the definition of a rational suicide and when a rational suicide is morally permissible. The authors then discuss how this definition can be used to expand the moral justification of physician assisted suicide beyond terminal patients to include patients with progressive dementia disorder. Practical problems with this expansion are discussed and the authors also discuss problems with criticisms of arguments against physician assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, rejecting the Doctrine of Double Effect as a legitimate way to distinguish justified from unjustified cases that involve hastening death.
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