Euthanasia
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- Created on: 14-01-18 13:52
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- Euthanasia
- Quality of life
- Human life has to possess certain attributes in order to have value
- Humans should be able to live a dignified life and end life with dignity
- Greek desire for Euthanasia
- Modern society is still influenced by religious stands on Euthanasia
- Kevin Smith
- Modern society is still influenced by religious stands on Euthanasia
- Sanctity of life
- supreme and intrinsic specialness of human life
- Genesis - man and woman created the image and likeness of God
- Life-taking is an ultimate taboo
- By taking one life, others are endangered as the status of life is undermined
- Unexpected possibilities end when life is gone
- Social sense -destructive to give others authority to end a life
- Unexpected possibilities end when life is gone
- By taking one life, others are endangered as the status of life is undermined
- Applications
- Kantian Ethics
- Goes against Categorical imperative - cannot be universalised
- Medical professionals duty contradicted when applied to Euthanasia
- People should be seen as ends not means
- Situation Ethics
- Most loving action - ignores legalistic approaches
- Patient autonomy
- Fitting criteria that might determine whether a being is a person
- Natural Law
- Euthanasia is an apparant good
- Goes against primary precept of protecting life
- Only God can take life away - Image of God
- Applying to society
- Kantian Ethics
- Non-voluntary and voluntary
- Voluntary
- Person's life is ended due to request through a third party
- Several factors to be considered before deciding what to do
- Jonathan Glover
- Rejects reasons why Euthanasia shouldn't be permitted
- Jonathan Glover
- Several factors to be considered before deciding what to do
- Person's life is ended due to request through a third party
- Non-Voluntary
- Euthanasia without request
- Removing burdensome treatment is not considered Euthanasia
- Slippery-slope - unintended effects
- Euthanasia without request
- Voluntary
- Autonomy
- John Stuart Mill
- Matters that do not concern others, individuals should have full autonomy
- People should have the right to choose when and how to die
- Gregory Pence - Help those who what to die as they are actally dying
- Opponents - indirect threat to others - low self esteem
- Instead of seeking other forms of help, they jump straight to death
- Responsibility for spporting the right to die, wrong to oblige medical professionals to be in such activity
- Instead of seeking other forms of help, they jump straight to death
- John Stuart Mill
- Case studies
- Simon's choice
- Diane Petty
- Dr Death
- Charlie Guard
- Quality of life
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