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Palliative sedation, foregoing life-sustaining treatment, and aid-in-dying: what is the difference?Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 36 (3): 197-213. 2015.After a review of terminology, I identify—in addition to Margaret Battin’s list of five primary arguments for and against aid-in-dying—the argument from functional equivalence as another primary argument. I introduce a novel way to approach this argument based on Bernard Lonergan’s generalized empirical method. Then I proceed on the basis of GEM to distinguish palliative sedation, palliative sedation to unconsciousness when prognosis is less than two weeks, and foregoing life-sustaining treatmen…Read more
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