Hannah is a healthy 23 year-old woman who visits a hospital emergency room with severe head injury.

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Hannah is a healthy 23 year-old woman who visits a hospital emergency room with severe head injury. The doctors determine that they can treat Hannah and she will fully recover in a few months. The cost of treating her will be about $250,000.However, for a smaller cost of about $100,000 the doctors would let Hannah die in the hospital and then harvest her vital organs to benefit many other people.While the loss of Hannah would be tragic, many other lives could be saved with the organ donations.

From the case in the chapter of Healthy Hannah:

a. What factors would you consider in making this decision?

b. Using only the principle of utility, what decision would you make?

c. Considering the principle of justice, how would this change your decision?