Euthanasia overview mindmap
Overview of the Euthanasia Topic
Key: Red = Criticism
Green = Support
Yellow = Link to another area
Blue = Topic
- Created by: Berbtato
- Created on: 23-05-17 14:50
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- Euthanasia
- Arguments For
- Quality of life Argument
- If someone is going to Die anyway and it will be painful and slow, is there a point in living in suffering?
- In the play Women of Tranchis Heracles asks his son to Kill him to end the pain
- "In our secular society, Euthansia must be a personal decision" - Kevin Smith
- Should the church have such domination over Law
- Autonomy argument
- Links to QoL argument
- Mill - Doesn't concern others, we should have the right to choose our own death
- Kevorkian - Highest principle in any ethics is Personal Autonomy
- Might lead to people seeing themselves as a burden and ending their life
- Link to Slippery Slope argument
- Quality of life Argument
- Arguments Against
- Sanctity of life argument
- Our lives are God-Given and thus only God can decide when they End
- God Gave the Breath of Life - Genesis 1:27
- We make covenants with God, to protect life and be Holy
- Slippery slope argument, if we start taking lives where will it end
- Lactanius - Humans are a sacred animal, with dignity and sanctity
- Criticisms
- Sanctity of life challenged in Scripture
- God commanding destruction of Sodom
- God commands Death to those in the Promised Land
- Sometimes sacrifice is necessary to save others - Doctrine of double effect
- Natural law
- Sanctity of life challenged in Scripture
- Our lives are God-Given and thus only God can decide when they End
- Sanctity of life argument
- Applying Ethical Theories
- Aquinas' Natural Law
- Primary Precept to preserve Life
- We are crafted in God's image and knitted together in the Womb - Psalm 139:13
- Taking life is against Divine law
- Euthanasia is an Apparent good, in realism not acceptable
- catholic belief
- However Doctrine of double effect does support Pallative Care
- Death is not the intention
- Children lack higher abilities, using this as a reason is like justifying killing Children freely
- Slippery Slope Argument
- Fletcher's Situation ethics
- Rejects legal approach and supports taking the situation into account
- Love should be used to guide this kind of decision, not Law
- 'Death control' - Matter of Dignity, Quality of life over sanctity
- Taking a situationist approach would not justify it every time, preventing slippery slope
- Aquinas' Natural Law
- Arguments For
- Being 'Brain dead' or in a 'Permanent Vegatitative state' - Are you still a person
- Awareness and ability to act is what gives us 'Personhood'
- Quality of life Argument
- If someone is going to Die anyway and it will be painful and slow, is there a point in living in suffering?
- In the play Women of Tranchis Heracles asks his son to Kill him to end the pain
- "In our secular society, Euthansia must be a personal decision" - Kevin Smith
- Should the church have such domination over Law
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