Thought Experiment
- Patient is hooked up to ventilator, and is being performed intensive care
- Patient does not want to be in intensive care anymore, asks doctor to remove the ventilator
- Doctor removes the ventilator, and patient dies Did the doctor kill the patient?
Responses
- Doctor directly makes the choice to end his life
- Not killing, because patient requested to die
- It is really the underlying disease that is killing the patient, not the ventilator itself