or people to demand what they want or need as a matter of rights, hence the claim of the right to die.In defining the meaning of the word right certain questions come up, and to clarify, define, explain, and decipher, these claims of validity Leon R. Kass laid down the law or rights as it was, as to whether or not the right to die is feasible. What is the difference between right and wants? What does it mean to have a right to something? Why should the right to die be asserted? Is there a right to die?In order to understand the concepts that are brought up in succeeding arguments we need to clarify some of the language and setup a base from which we can go into this information. Beliefs cannot become moral standards simply because individuals so label them. American Idealism: which is that the individual is more important than the whole. Universal Precepts: are tell the truth, respect the privacy of others, protect confidential information, obtain consent before invading another persons body, do not kill, do not cause pain, do not steal or otherwise deprived of goods, prevent harm from occurring to others. The Kantian categorical imperative is such that I ought never to act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law. However a moral act is praiseworthy only if done neither for self-interested reasons nor as the result of a natural disposition, but rather from duty. That is, the persons motive for acting must a be recognition for the act as resting on duty. Finally the meaning of autonomy, which is rooted in the liberal moral and political tradition of the importance of individual freedom and choice. In moral philosophy personal autonomy refers to personal self-governance; personal rule of the self by adequate understanding while remaining free from controlling interferences by others from personal limitations that prevent choice. Autonomy thus means freedom from external constraint...
