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Core ethical issues under discussion About Physician-Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia in Critical Care.
| Are there patients for whom death is beneficial? | Some patients may benefit from death
| The benefit of death is unknown and unknowable to medicine
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| Is physician-assisted suicide/euthanasia morally equivalent to withholding/withdrawing life support? | There is no ethically meaningful difference between PAS/E and WWLST
| PAS/E and WWLST are ethically distinct because of differences in intent and mechanism of effect
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| Is it morally acceptable for physicians to cause death intentionally? | Intentionally causing death of patients may sometimes be morally acceptable
| Intentionally causing death of patients is not morally acceptable
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| What is a reasonable accommodation between the right of patient access to PAS/E and the right of conscientious objection? | Consensus was reached on this issue
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