Framing euthanasia
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- DOI: 10.1136/jme.2005.013847
Framing euthanasia
Abstract
Death cannot be mastered through a metaphysics of efficiency that interprets all actions in terms only of cause and effect, but it can be transcended if we leave the frame open to death's ambiguity
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