The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia
He argues that euthanasia as international killing goes against natural law because it violates the natural inclination to preserve life. Furthermore, in Gay-William’s view, both self-interest and possible practical effects of euthanasia provide reasons for rejecting it.

 is slowly gaining acceptance within our society.
 the result of unthinking sympathy and benevolence.

Case study: Karen Quinlan’s tragic story Elicit from us deep feelings if compassion. We think to ourselves, “She and her family would be better off if she were dead.”
 To view that if someone better off dead, then it must be all right to kill that person.
▲Gay-William > It is inherently wrong, but it is also wrongly judged from the standpoints of self-interest and of practical effects.

The definition of Euthanasia by Gay-William:
- involves taking a human life, either one’s own or that of another.
- The person whose life is taken must be someone who is believed to be suffering from some disease or injury from which recovery cannot reasonably be expected.
- The action must be deliberate and international.
 Euthanasia is intentionally taking the life of a presumably hopeless person.

“Passive euthanasia” – The failure to continue treatment after it has been realized that the patient has little chance of benefitting from it.
 Misleading and Mistaken
 In such cases, the person involved is not killed (the first essential aspect of euthanasia), nor is the death of the person intended by the withholding of additional treatment (the third essential aspect of euthanasia). The aim may be to spare the person additional and unjustified pain, to save him from the indignities of hopeless manipulations, and to avoid increasing the financial and emotional burden on his family.
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