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Please help docs! is morphine use on terminally ill patients considered euthanasia?

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Dr. Axel Martinez-Irizarry answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

No. Double Effect.: Principle of Double Effect: 1. the nature of the act is itself good, or at least morally neutral; 2. the agent intends the good effect and not the bad either as a means to the good or as an end itself; 3. the good effect outweighs the bad effect in circumstances sufficiently grave to justify causing the bad effect and the agent exercises due diligence to minimize the harm.

Answered 6/21/2014

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