Comment by latchkey
3 years ago
If we block someones ability to try novel procedures, how is that any different from blocking their right to assisted suicide?
3 years ago
If we block someones ability to try novel procedures, how is that any different from blocking their right to assisted suicide?
A steel-man response would be that assisted suicide is more about pain reduction, whereas experimental drugs could have terrible side effects.
It isn't a convincing argument to me, because possible death avoidance is a higher level of morality to me, but harm reduction is extremely prevalent in medicine as a driving factor.
But we allow physician assisted suicide.
Strange isn't it? Almost sounds like soylent green. Maybe I'll skip McDonald's this week.
I think guaranteed death is much more different than potential death and potential cure.
It's a tough line to walk on, still.
The only guarantee in life, is death.
The difference is in how painful and how long that death will be
...and taxes.
Because access to novel procedures gives us valuable data.