An assessment of the moral permissibility of medical assistance in death through an act-utilitarian perspective

• Main Author: Yow, Rachael
• Other Authors: Anu Selva-Thomson
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165532
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In recent years, the practice of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has become more widely accepted as a viable course of action in the face of the unbearable pain from a terminal illness. While some countries have already begun to legalise the practice of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) u...