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Forced Abandonment and Euthanasia: A Question from Katrina
Thursday, April 17

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Kenneth Kipnis, PhD

Kenneth Kipnis, PhD.
Professor of Philosophy
University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Using the events at Memorial Medical Center as background, the paper considers "forced abandonment" as an excusing condition for euthanasia. The bioethical issues suggested by the events in New Orleans are compared with those that arise in connection with "battlefield euthanasia." The arguments in these two settings are substantially different from those that support euthanasia as a response to intractable suffering.

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