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faujasinghjiKeeping a brain dead person alive is problematic as you imply. However mercy killing is the act of ending a life through the use of an aggressive intervention such as lethal combinations of chemicals. The alternative of removing life support or not providing life support (as in DNR or Do Not Resuscitate) is not Mercy Killing. The decision to actively take a life versus the decision not to continue life support, by most ethical and medical accounts, is viewed as two different things, because in the first instance of removing life support, nature takes over. In the second instance of actively ending a life, another human takes control.
faujasinghji
Keeping a brain dead person alive is problematic as you imply. However mercy killing is the act of ending a life through the use of an aggressive intervention such as lethal combinations of chemicals. The alternative of removing life support or not providing life support (as in DNR or Do Not Resuscitate) is not Mercy Killing. The decision to actively take a life versus the decision not to continue life support, by most ethical and medical accounts, is viewed as two different things, because in the first instance of removing life support, nature takes over. In the second instance of actively ending a life, another human takes control.
