6. What is meant by the principle of ‘Double Effect’?
This is a term used to differentiate morally between the ethical intentions of those who administer drugs for the purpose
of relieving symptoms and those who administer them with the intention of killing the patient. What it states is that if
drugs are administered with the intention of relieving symptoms and the patient should happen to die (‘double effect’)
during this procedure, no ethical guilt attaches to the procedure because it was not done with the intent of causing
death. In contrast, it is not ethically acceptable (or, in New Zealand legally acceptable) for any person to administer drugs
with the primary intention of killing the recipient.
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