title: Puzzling cases about killing and letting die.
abstract: Discussions of euthanasia often appeal to the distinction between killing people and letting them die. Favor asks whether this distinction is morally important--in particular, whether killing is worse than merely letting someone die, even when the motivations and consequences are the same. She explores our moral intuitions via a discussion of various subtly different hypothetical examples.
authors.affiliation: Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Favor
mesh_terms: D026689:Ethical Analysis; D028601:Euthanasia, Active / Q000941:ethics*; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive / Q000941:ethics*; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D010684:Philosophy