Who has painful-inoperable cancer and wants to die

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Once the decision has been made to stop treating a patient who has a painful, inoperable cancer and wants to die, which of the following courses of action would Rachels consider most morally appropriate? doing nothing as the cancer takes its course attempting to make the patient as comfortable as possible while the cancer takes its course trying to convince the patient and the patient's family to participate in a study of an experimental drug hastening the patient's death.

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