The Real Dutch Disease
Euthanasia is so accepted that doctors must now justify prolonging a life.
Euthanasia is so accepted that doctors must now justify prolonging a life.
Utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer says some humans — particularly fetuses, newborn babies, and elderly people suffering from dementia — should be killed if their deaths will reduce overall suffering. Never mind that Singer broke all of his own rules when his mother became ill with Alzheimer's disease.
In 2001 The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia and, along with it, assisted suicide.
Some people with disabilities are angry about my opposition to legalizing euthanasia.
End Credits provides an opportunity to understand some of the ways in which people who are pro-euthanasia and those who are anti-euthanasia radically differ in how they view both dying and death, and what euthanasia involves.
We only manage activities that are ethically acceptable; we prohibit those that are not.