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Medicine and Health Sciences

1999

University of Massachusetts Boston

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Euthanasia: Understanding Ethical Issues Through Role-Play, Setsuko Inoue Jun 1999

Euthanasia: Understanding Ethical Issues Through Role-Play, Setsuko Inoue

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

Having transformed traditional ethics, people have empowered themselves and put ethics under their control. An individual's value has become the center of all decision making. where has ethics gone? Why has ethics been fossilized? when an individual desperately needs a litmus test to check his stance, why cannot he re-visit ethics and apply its insights to solving his problems? I wish to believe that there might be a legacy of conventional ethics in the form of universal rules, regardless of time, culture, and context, to be passed on to the next generation. Has God given us life, death, and choice …