A major problem with the poll
The reason that your beloved one has to die has absolutely nothing to do with the greater good. It has everything to do with the fact that it is wrong to commit murder, even if the intentions behind it are good.
As the question is posed, you cannot just go out and use the death ray. Anymore than I could go hunt you down, shoot you, and take your heart to give to a loved one for a heart transplant. (Don't worry: I'd be careful to shoot you in the head so your heart is not damaged, and I'll bring an expert medical crew that will have your heart in proper storage as quickly as possible. And I wouldn't literally give the heart to my loved one, but rather to an expert heart surgeon who would perform the necessary heart transplant.) Even if I somehow knew that your heart was the only one my loved one's body wouldn't reject and that this was the only option to prevent them for dying.
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