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    Terminal patients facing cognitive decline, pain, or seve... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If 'cure' is redefined as restoring the patient's capacity for meaningful agency rather than biological immortality, skilled physicians demonstrably succeed even in terminal cases.

    Terminal patients facing cognitive decline, pain, or severe organ failure may lack capacity for meaningful agency regardless of physician skill, making the claim empirically unfalsifiable.

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    Capacity for meaningful agency(ethics and autonomy)
    The ability to make real, thoughtful choices about your own life and act on them in ways that matter to you.
    Cognitive decline(presented as something that can distort experiential interests)
    A worsening of how well your brain works—like when memory, attention, or judgment gets worse, often due to aging or illness.
    Empirically unfalsifiable(the main criticism being leveled at Whitehead's terms)
    A claim that cannot be proven false through observation or experiment because it's too abstract or vague to test in the real world.
    Terminal patients(medical ethics)
    People with serious illnesses that doctors expect will lead to death in the near future.
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    A morally relevant sense in which an agent is the direct cause of harm, invoked in deontological constraints; its absence removes a deontological bar to acting.

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