Suppose a ninety-year-old man is dying of cancer and is in excruciating pain that no medicine can relieve. He asks to be given a lethal injection. According to the doctrine of double effect, giving the injection is not morally permissible.

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The doctrine of double effect states that an action causing harm is permissible only if the harm is not the intended outcome but a side effect of achieving a good end. In this case, the direct intention is to cause death to relieve pain, which does not align with the doctrine's principles.

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