Religion and Medical Ethics Euthanasia
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- Religion and Medical Ethics Euthanasia
- when someone with a terminal illness decides to end their life.
- Voluntary Euthanasia
- The patient has asked for it.
- asked doctors
- The patient has asked for it.
- Involuntary Euthanasia
- Performed without the dying person being told.
- life support
- Performed without the dying person being told.
- Passive Euthanasia
- Doctors give a pain killing drug but do nothing to save the patient
- Cancer patient
- Doctors give a pain killing drug but do nothing to save the patient
- Active Euthanasia
- Doctors give the patient a drug to take the pain away knowing the drug will kill them.
- Cancer patient
- Doctors give the patient a drug to take the pain away knowing the drug will kill them.
- Compulsory Euthanasia
- Performed because a person has a certain illness or has reached a certain age.
- Illegal worldwide
- Performed because a person has a certain illness or has reached a certain age.
- Voluntary Euthanasia
- Non religious
- For
- We should be able to choose how we die.
- Lessons the pain
- shouldn't have to live when no chance of getting better.
- stops the suffering of relatives.
- the health you have is more important than the length
- A life of pain and suffering can be as bad as dying
- it gets rid of people who are no longer useful
- Against
- It is unnecessary when there are pain killing drugs.
- The patient might not be in the right state of mind.
- It could be abused.
- Patients may not trust doctors.
- People could be talked into euthanasia for the wrong reasons.
- It is no better than murder.
- It is not fair to expect doctors to kill patients.
- Mistakes can happen.
- For
- Christianity
- Against
- Sanctity of life
- "If we live, we live to the lord, if we die we die to the lord" Corinthians 6:19
- Pope: "Euthanasia was a grave violation to the law of God"
- holy spirit
- your body is a temple
- "surely you know that you are God's temple" Corinthians
- your body is a temple
- Life is a special gift
- As a gift it should be treated with respect and dignity, since it is unique and sacred.
- It could bring about a change in our relationships with other people
- Is like murder
- "Thou shall not kill"
- Sanctity of life
- For
- No Christians agree with Euthanasia
- Against
- Other Religions
- Hindus
- Doctors should not accept a patients request for euthanasia.
- will cause the soul and the body to be separated at an unnatural time.
- The result will damage the karma of both the patient and the doctor.
- will cause the soul and the body to be separated at an unnatural time.
- cannot be allowed because it breaches the teaching of ahimsa(doing no harm)
- helping to end a painful life.
- performing a good deed and so fulfilling their moral obligations.
- Doctors should not accept a patients request for euthanasia.
- Jews
- human life is sacred
- it is wrong for anyone to shorten it.
- Our lives are not for us to dispose of as we feel.
- All life is of infinite value, regardless of its duration or quality
- All humans are made in the image of God.
- Saving a person from pain is not a reason to kill them.
- human life is sacred
- Hindus
- when someone with a terminal illness decides to end their life.
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