Over the past decade, we have gone from Dr. Jack Kevorkian's first public assisted suicide to the first legal assisted suicide in Oregon. The underlying issue has been whether terminally ill individuals should have the right to ask a doctor to hasten their own deaths. However, larger issues have been raised as well; about dying with dignity and what constitutes a ''good death.''
Dr. Kevorkian's actions are reflective of the Pre-Conventional stage of moral reasoning; he felt his action was good, despite respect to any kind of moral order.
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