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September 10, 2025The AMA Journal of EthicOpen Access

Four Key Concepts in Existential Health Care Ethics

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ETE. Torres

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Article examines existential ethics impacting health care, highlighting ethical implications and future outcomes.

Key Points

  • Going extinct represents a unique ethical perspective on existence and mortality, underscoring a critical distinction.
  • Extinction-causing catastrophes differ fundamentally from non-extinction-causing events, leading to varied ethical considerations.
  • The concept of human extinction harbors multiple meanings, potentially resulting in conflicting conclusions about future ethics.
  • Historical reasons have contributed to the neglect of existential ethics in health care discussions, now finally gaining attention.

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E. Torres (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23f1fb210217d64795696https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2025.601
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