Answer to a Tragic and Difficult QuestionIntroduction In light of this tragic circumstance and moral obligation here is an extremely difficult decision to make. Having to rethink the entire two decades of written material was unquestionably powerful and challenging. I have a hard time imagining what Mrs. Wolf must have gone through, because it brings tears to my eyes. Having your father (even though I've never had one) rely on you for terminal decisions about his life says a lot about the closeness experienced by father and daughter. This closeness makes his moral position even more difficult. Rationalism, angst, turmoil, empathy and emptiness are easily evident in the fact that you want to do what is realistically correct for that given situation, but what is the correct and ethical response? My Response Growing up I had no parents (a different kind of tragedy) my heart is moved by the anguish both parties had to endure. The consequentialism of Mrs. Wolf's decisions by having empathy with her father's experience of which the plague invading her father's physical body gives reward in every way possible within her own beliefs and values. Deciding the providence of a loved one is not an easy circumstance to understand. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy tells us… Deontology falls within the domain of moral theories that guide and evaluate our choices about what we should do (deontic theories), as opposed to (aretaic [virtue] theories) that – fundamentally, at least - orient and evaluate what kind of person (in terms of character traits) we are and should be. The ethics of this tragedy has an impact that carries with it a life......middle of paper......and our life situations. Yet it is the circumstances of life and the experience of those situations that make us wise or foolish, even though we still have the freedom of choice and the God-given will to make that choice, no one can take away what is within us. God bless Susan Wolf and her late father, whose life is loved and missed. References Mosser, K. (2010). A Concise Introduction to Philosophy San Diego, Bridgepoint Education, Inc. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.eduStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Deontological Ethics Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/Wolf, Susan. (2008, September/October). Confronting physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia: My father's death. Hastings Center Report. 38(5), 23-26. Retrieved from EBSCO HostDatabase http:// http://site.ebrary.com/lib/asford/docDetail.action?docID=