Euthanasia and Suicide - Medical Ethics
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- Created on: 20-04-13 22:12
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- Euthanasia and Suicide
- Definitions
- Voluntary Euthanasia: a free choice to be helped to die
- Involuntary Euthanasia: someone else makes the decision
- Active Euthanasia: Giving someone a treatment that will bring about their death
- Passive Euthanasia: stopping medical treatment causing the patients death
- For Euthanasia
- Healthy people can commit suicide so ill people should be able to kill themselves too
- Catholic beliefs
- Euthanasia and suicide are wrong because life is a gift from God
- Both acts are breaking the commandment "Thou shall not kill"
- "There is a time for everything... a time to be born and a time to die"
- We should not interfere with God's plan for us
- Liberal Beliefs
- Euthanasia may be acceptable if if it is the most compassionae thing to do
- Jesus taught to "love your neighbour"
- Many believe that the best way for a terminally ill person to die is for them to spend the rest of their life in a hospice, receiving help and support
- Catholic beliefs
- Euthanasia and suicide are wrong because life is a gift from God
- Both acts are breaking the commandment "Thou shall not kill"
- "There is a time for everything... a time to be born and a time to die"
- We should not interfere with God's plan for us
- Catholic beliefs
- Euthanasia may be acceptable if if it is the most compassionae thing to do
- Definitions
- Involuntary Euthanasia: someone else makes the decision
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