Niebrój Lesław
Zakład Filozofii i Etyki Slaskiej Akademii Medycznej.
Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2005 Jul;19(109):122-4.
Euthanasia is commonly considered as a form of suicide. The study aims to explore if such a presumption could be justified. Philosophical analysis of concepts of "human being", "human person", "biological life" and "life of human person", undertaken in this article, proved that the effective cause of suicide is obviously different from such a cause of euthanasia. Suicide aims to destruct life of a human person which is considered deprived of its dignity. Euthanasia's effective cause is to protect the dignity of such a life which is threatened by low quality of biological life caused both by the disease as well as by the applied treatment even if palliative only. On the basis of these considerations the main conclusion is drawn: suicide and euthanasia having different moral (material) subjects should be also ethically evaluated in a different way.
安乐死通常被视为自杀的一种形式。本研究旨在探讨这种假设是否合理。本文对“人”“人类个体”“生物生命”和“人类个体的生命”等概念进行了哲学分析，结果表明，自杀的有效原因与安乐死的有效原因明显不同。自杀旨在摧毁被认为失去尊严的人类个体的生命。安乐死的有效原因是保护这种因疾病以及所采用的治疗方法（即使只是姑息治疗）导致生物生命质量低下而受到威胁的生命的尊严。基于这些考虑得出主要结论：自杀和安乐死具有不同的道德（实质）主体，在伦理上也应以不同方式进行评估。
