Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Franklin G. Miller believe that “killing by itself is not morally wrong…Ultimately their aim is to justify organ donation after cardiac death (DCD)….[T]he authors state frankly that the patient is not dead at that point….Nor, they say, is life “sacred.” The only relevant difference between life and death is the existence of abilities – and a brain-damaged person no longer has these.
BioEdge
“Is it morally wrong to take a life? Not really, say bioethicists”
January 27, 2012
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