PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning
End of Life Choices Introduction The definition of unbearable suffering has always been open to interpretation. In Netherlands, the Supreme Court defined suffering as both physical and psychological. In Belgium, the legislation pointed out that if a patient is seeking euthanasia, they must be in a hopeless medical condition and they are now suffering physically and psychologically. Most of the time, the people who want to die also suffer from extreme depression. This is one of the flaws when legislation will allow non-terminal patients the right to die rather than to be treated, because people who suffer from depression ...