A request for non-voluntary euthanasia in Bangladesh:a moral assessment

A request for non-voluntary euthanasia in Bangladesh:a moral assessment

Swazo, Norman K.

2017/00/00

English

20170000

Government authorities in Bangladesh recently were placed in an awkward and extraordinary position of having to make a presumably difficult decision: how to respond to a man’s request to have his two sons and grandson euthanized. This is an extraordinary request for a developing country’s health service authorities to consider, especially in the context of a Muslim-majority population where any appeal to the legitimacy of suicide (and, by extension, physician-assisted suicide) would be automatically rejected as contrary to Islamic moral and jurisprudential principles. Here the case is reviewed in the context of arguments that engage non-voluntary euthanasia and the local context of inadequate health service delivery.

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active euthanasia--[pri];involuntary euthanasia--[pri];Islamic ethics--[pri]

disadvantaged persons;Duchenne muscular dystrophy;ethical analysis;health care delivery;philosophy;third party consent;utilitarianism

Bangladesh--[pri]

Islamic bioethics--[pri]

Bioethics in Faith and Practice2017; 3(1):6:34 p.

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