Theresa Pearson’s case is a situation no parent should have to go through. Accepting the fact that your daughter will never be conscious is a hard but making the decision to donate her organs is just as tough. Although, the law was not on the parents and physicians side, I am. Deontology is our duty to perform the act itself which in this case, the physicians have the duty to help people. They may have not been able to save Theresa but by backing the parent’s decision of donating, they would have been helping many more families. Virtue ethics emphasizes right character over duties, rules and consequences which happens to be what the parents and physicians were trying to achieve. The physicians informed the parents of Theresa’s condition and
