• yannic
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    7 months ago

    That’s a false dichotomy.

    The principle of double effect allows one to attempt to relieve suffering with treatments having high mortality rates.

    Euthanasia is a cost-saving measure to avoid the high costs of palliative care for non-palliative patients, and in the examples cited in the article – healthcare in general.