Why let people die?
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This paper concerns those patients whose brain is irreversibly damaged to the point where they will never recover significant mental life. I examine the reasons which justify the decision to withhold or discontinue active medical intervention in these patients. They involve the identity, quality of life and agency of those beings whom we value as persons.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of medical ethics
دوره 12 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1986