Jack Kevorkian's Physician Assisted Suicide
Dr. Death, Death machine, and murderer. These terms surround Dr. Jack Kevorkian and make his story menacing. Dr. Kevorkian, a physician in the 1990’s, used and advocated Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS). PAS describes a physician knowledgeably giving a person medication to induce death with the person’s consent. Dr. Kevorkian would provide a device which attached to a person, allowing them to flip a switch that caused death.
According to Consequentialist, Kevorkian committed a moral action. He saved money by eliminating a person that would have caused a financial drain from expensive health care. Furthermore, since the person wished to die, he would have maximized their happiness of by placing death in their hands. Thus the consequence
According to Consequentialist, Kevorkian committed a moral action. He saved money by eliminating a person that would have caused a financial drain from expensive health care. Furthermore, since the person wished to die, he would have maximized their happiness of by placing death in their hands. Thus the consequence