Ethical Quandaries

Finally, there are the ethical or moral ramifications, for it can be discerned that cancer is the disease of main concern in the arguments over euthanasia and assisted suicide. The situation is spelled out by Brian Eads in A License to Kill, which appeared in the September, 1997, issne of the Reader s Digest. Eads article pertains for the most part to the practice of euthanasia as it currently exists in the Netherlands 

This foregoing represents the collision between reason, that is, intellectualism, or ideology, and Biblical authority, that is, morality, or religion. 

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The principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice form a foundation for analysis of ethical quandaries. In addition, a comprehensive ethical analysis will include considerations of cultural and reh-gious diversity of patient-subjects, health care providers and interpersonal relationships an assessment of the profession-based duties and obligations of the health care professionals, including an examination of relevant professional oaths and codes and an analysis of relevantly similar previous bioethical dilemmas. 

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