ome a duty to die. For instance, frail, disabled elderly people who are financial and emotional burdens on their families may feel some pressure to ask for euthanasia. Legalizing euthanasia has the potential to weaken and damage the relationship between patients and physicians. The relationship between the patient and the physician within the practice of medicine has been understood traditionally as a covenant or contract with rights on the part of the patient and duties on the part of the physician. The primary duty of the physician in this relationship is, in fact, negative duty to do no harm. It also follows from this, that the physician has the duty of beneficence. In or modernity the physicians duty of beneficence has succumb to the patients right to autonomy. ...
