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"(...) considering the care of particular individuals at the end of life (...) As distinct from the sanctity of life doctrine, I suggest that the morality of euthanasia from the perspective of care ethics favors the goals of meeting the vital biological needs of individuals, fostering their basic functioning, and alleviating their pain and suffering over the goal of never intentionally hastening death (...) caring for individuals at the end of life in attentive, responsive, and respectful ways. As such, it supports voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia in some limited circumstances, namely, when it represents the only acceptable or available means to relieve a person’s pain and suffering or otherwise care for them in acceptable ways. (...) It suggests that euthanasia is morally permissible only in a well-specified set of circumstances that demarcate life-ending treatments as the only or best way to care for a person."


Engster, D. , 2008-03-20 "Care Ethics and Euthanasia" Conference Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Manchester Hyatt, San Diego, California