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withdraw feeding and other life sustaining measures so that he would die. Tony Bland had permanently ceased to have a life in any meaningful sense.
A person is a creature capable of valueing its own existence. Persons who want to live are wronged by being killed because they are thereby deprived of something they value. Persons who don't want to live are not on this a/c wronged by having their wish to die granted through voluntary euthanasia. Non-persons or potential persons can't be wronged in this way because death does not deprive them of anything they can value. If they can't wish to live, they can't have that wish frustrated by being killed. Creatures other than persons can be harmed by causing gratuitous suffering. The morality of ending their lifes will have to take a/c of wishes & interest of others.
The individual is said to have come into existence when the egg is 1st differentiated or sperm that will fertilise that egg. This individual will gradually move from being potential or a pre-person into actual person. When he/she becomes capable of valucing his/her own existence & if she/he permanently loses capacity of valucing he/she will ceased to be a person?
The harm you do in taking a life is harm of depriving somecone of something that they can value. But you may also be wrong to those who care about them & those who value life intrinsically.
Harm of ending life- Is harm to individual. Harm of depriving that individual of something that they value & want them. Voluntary euthanasia will not be wrong is view prioritizing the individual's autonomy & liberty to pursue may be termed as liberal view of euthanasia, abortion & experiment on embryo are after cast in the terms of value of life
There is 1) Respect for life 2) respect of their welfare 3) good wishes 4) intrinsic value of their lives & interest.
Our own choices, decisions, preferences helps to make us what we are. - Each can shape value, confirm & modify their character & can develop & understand ourselves. So autonomy as the ability and freedom to make choices shape our lives. We need welfare in terms of health, freedom from pain, mobility, shelter, nourishment. ..
Nature itself makes an investment in terms of time, trouble, & natural resources when life is created & such creations are most valuable. These investment increases in linear way as the life continues & investment of other people who invest time, effort & resources in creating & sustaining that life.
On these views Euthanasia & abortion is wrong. Squandering this natural & human investment people who prioritise the natural contribution
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