Ethics Essay: Euthanasia continued....
Speaking Technologically
Muddying the waters of medical ethics are the advances made
in medical technology. The line between life and death is less clearly drawn
than it was even fifty years ago and this line moves all the time as we develop
more and more sophisticated equipment to establish brain activity. People can
be resuscitated from what would have been considered to be death and emerge
unscathed.
Life support machines, improved pain relief, equipment and
drugs to reactivate the heart, methods of feeding and hydrating the body which
bypass the stomach are all part of life-defying medical practice which serve to
confuse the situation and make life and death decisions harder to make for all.
This impinges on our difficulty in constructing an ethic that covers all
eventualities.
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