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Is there a moral duty to die?

J A Corlett1.   

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a great deal of philosophical discussion about the alleged moral right to die. If there is such a moral right, then it would seem to imply a moral duty of others to not interfere with the exercise of the right. And this might have important implications for public policy insofar as public policy ought to track what is morally right. But is there a moral duty to die? If so, under what conditions, if any, ought one to have such a duty, and why? In this paper, I distinguish between different moral grounds for the putative moral duty to die: deontological, intuitionist, and contractarian. Subsequently, I argue in support of Paul Menzel's theory of health care distribution. More precisely, I concur with his claim that there is a moral duty to die inexpensively in health care contexts. Then I provide and defend a philosophical analysis of the conditions in which such a duty could exist.

Keywords:  Analytical Approach; Death and Euthanasia; Philosophical Approach

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Year:  2001        PMID: 11372575     DOI: 10.1023/A:1011355028021

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Health Care Anal        ISSN: 1065-3058


  4 in total

1.  On the relative strictness of negative and positive duties.

Authors:  Bruce Russell
Journal:  Am Philos Q       Date:  1977-04

2.  Age rationing and the just distribution of health care: is there a duty to die?

Authors:  Margaret Pabst Battin
Journal:  Ethics       Date:  1987-01

3.  Killing, letting die, and simple conflicts.

Authors:  H M Malm
Journal:  Philos Public Aff       Date:  1989

Review 4.  Is there a duty to die?

Authors:  J Hardwig
Journal:  Hastings Cent Rep       Date:  1997 Mar-Apr       Impact factor: 2.683

  4 in total

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