NML

• Assisted suicide opposes three primary precepts:

  doesn't preserve innocent human life, incompatible with living peacefully in and ordered society and goes against God
• double effect: a bad effect can sometimes be morally justified if its not the intended consequence

  • prescribing a potentially lethal dose of painkillers is arguably morally acceptable
• Proportionalism is the view that in extraordinary situations it may be morally acceptable to break an otherwise universal moral rule