Philosophy Essay:
Word Count: 1500 words (10% tolerance), including citations, excluding bibliography.
Topics (write on one of the following):
- Consider the medical criteria that have been offered for death. What are the merits and limitations of these definitions for understanding death?
- Should we regard patients in a permanent vegetative state as alive or dead? Why?
- Is death a harm? Why/why not? (Discuss with reference to at least one of the following: Nagel, Nussbaum, Scarre, Bernshaw and/or Williams.)
- Is it rational to fear death? Why/why not? (Discuss with reference to the views of Epicurus and/or Lucretius.)
- Do we need to take a specific attitude towards death in order to live well? If so, what kind of attitude and why? If not, why not?
- Is immortality desirable? Why/why not? (Discuss with reference to Williams and/or Nussbaum.)
- Is killing morally impermissible? Why/why not?
- Is abortion morally permissible? Why/why not? (Discuss with reference to Thomson, Joyce and/or Hursthouse.)
- Is euthanasia morally permissible? If so, why and under what conditions? If not, why not?
- Is there a moral distinction between active and passive euthanasia? (Discuss with reference to Steinbock and Rachels.)
- You must utilise at least three sources (preferably more).
- Deakin Harvard Referencing
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