"Right to Die" Case

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This paper examines the ethical medical question concerning the Nancy Cruzan "right to die" case. The paper examines this case from a consequentialist paradigm, a morally relativistic paradigm and from an alternative Buddhist paradigm.

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"The ethical paradigm of consequentialism, as its name suggests, is the view that "normative properties," in other words, ethical actions in the world, should be judged upon and "depend only" upon their resultant consequences. (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2003) The Nancy Cruzan case is famous legal a 'right to die' case whereby, after Nancy Cruzan was almost killed in a car crash, "years later, Cruzan's parents wanted to withdraw the artificial hydration and nutrition that kept their daughter alive," whom was deemed 'brain dead' or in a permanent vegetative state, at the time (Healthcare ethics, 2004) "

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