This is a short formal compositions that calls upon you to engage critically with our readings and the issues. Remember this is a philosophy assignment so make sure to answer the question fully. Make sure to fulfill both parts.

This is a short formal compositions that calls upon you to engage critically with our readings and the issues. Remember this is a philosophy assignment so make sure to answer the question fully. Make sure to fulfill both parts.Analysis Essay Assignment:Brock argues that there is no morally relevant difference between voluntary active euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Present his argument for this claim as carefully as you can. Now criticize this argument that is demonstrate that it is either invalid or unsound.VOLUNTARY ACTIVE EUTHANASIASince the case of Karen Quinlan first seized public attention fifteen years ago no issue in biomedicalethics has been more prominent than the debate about forgoing life-sustaining treatment. Controversycontinues regarding some aspects of that debate such as forgoing life-sustaining nutrition andhydration and relevant law varies some from state to state. Nevertheless I believe it is possible toidentify an emerging consensus that competent patients or the surrogates of incompetent patientsshould be permitted to weigh the benefits and burdens of alternative treatments including thealternative of no treatment according to the patients values and either to refuse any treatment or toselect from among available alternative treatments. This consensus is reflected in bioethics scholarshipin reports of prestigious bodies such as the Presidents Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems inMedicine The Hastings Center and the American Medical Association in a Large body of judicialdecisions in courts around the country and finally in the beliefs and practices of health careprofessionals who care for dying patients.( n1)More recently significant public and professional attention has shifted from life-sustaining treatment toeuthanasiamore specifically voluntary active euthanasiaand to physician-assisted suicide. Severalfactors have contributed to the increased interest in euthanasia. In the Netherlands it has been openlypracticed by physicians for several years with the acceptance of the countrys highest court.( n2) In 1988there was an unsuccessful attempt to get the question of whether it should be made legally permissibleon the ballot in California In November 1991 voters in the state of Washington defeated a widelypublicized referendum proposal to legalize both voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assistedsuicide. Finally some cases of this kind such as Itd Over Debbie described in the Journal of theEBSCOhost http://proxy01.ccis.edu:2267/ehost/delivery?sid=d7298e1c-5e32-4c1 of 22 8/28/13 11:27 AMAmerican Medical Association the suicide machine of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the cancer patientDiane of Dr. Timothy Quill have captured wide public and professional attention.( n3) Unfortunatelythe first two of these cases were sufficiently problematic that even most supporters of euthanasia orassisted suicide did not defend the physicians actions in them. As a result the subsequent debate theyspawned has often shed more heat than light. My aim is to increase the light and perhaps as well toreduce the heat on this important subject by formulating and evaluating the central ethical argumentsfor and against voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. My evaluation of thearguments leads me with reservations to be noted to support permitting both practices. My primaryaim however is not to argue for euthanasia but to identify confusions in some common arguments andproblematic assumptions and claims that need more defense or data in others. The issues areconsiderably more complex than either supporters or opponents often make out; my hope is to advancethe debate by focusing attention on what I believe the real issues under discussion should be.In the recent bioethics literature some have

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