Religion and Medical Ethics
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- Religion and Medical Ethics
- Euthanasia
- Gentle painless death
- Types
- Voluntary
- Dying person asks for it
- Involuntary
- Performed when a dying person hasn't been told
- Active
- Doctors give the patient a drug that takes away the pain knowing it will kill them
- Voluntary
- Hippocratic Oath: Promise made by doctors to preserve life
- AGAINST
- Fundamentalist: suffering is a way of strengthen faith
- God is the giver of life therefore only he can end it
- If we live we live for the lord, if we die we die for the lord' -St Paul
- Goes against sanctity of life
- Pope 1995 'Euthanasia was a grave violation of the law of God'
- Is like murder
- 'Thou shall not murder
- Gift from God, life should be treat with respect and dignity
- FOR
- But only passive euthanasia because it is the lesser of 2 evils
- Other Religious Views
- Hindus
- Not accepted as it goes against ahimsa
- Would offer physical and spiritual care
- Not accepted as it goes against ahimsa
- Muslims
- Similar to Catholic. Allah 'Life giver', 'death giver'
- Hindus
- Abortion
- FOR
- Exceptional circumstances, lesser of 2 evils
- AGAINST
- Catholics: Human from dertilisation
- Baby has a soul.
- Protestants: Potential human
- Deliberate termination of a foetus
- Why?
- ****
- Mother is mentally ill
- Baby has disability.
- Other religious views
- Hindus
- Has a soul, killing it would bring bad karma
- Muslims
- 99 names 'life giver' and death giver'
- Hindus
- FOR
- Suicide
- When someone takes there own life.
- Why?
- Feel lonely
- Depressed
- Stress
- Other religious views
- Hindu
- OK, to fasting to death, gives family a chance to prepare
- Muslim
- 'Nor can a soul die except by Allah leave'
- Hindu
- 'Thou shall not kill'
- Goes against the sanctity of life
- God has a plan for every human
- Life shouldn't be destroyed
- Church use to jail people who were unsuccessful, and wouldn't bury people in the church who was successful
- Samaratans
- Hospice
- First started in 1948 by Dame Cicely Sauders
- Don't believe in euthansasia
- 'Love one another as I have loved you'
- Take care of the terminally ill.
- Martin House +St Gemma's hospice
- The Sanctity of Life
- All life deserves respect
- Everyone is equal, this means that every life is worth a great deal and should be respected
- Life should not be destroyed
- The taking of another persons life goes against 1 of the 10 commandments
- God has a plan for every human
- A persons future is mapped out and planned by God from the moment of conception. It is therefore wrong to take that away
- Human life is precious
- Humans are made in the image of God
- Life is a gift from God
- God the creator of life not us, therefore only God has the right to end life.
- Other religious views
- Hindus
- Brahman does not plan out life karma does
- The soul is present in every species of life
- Muslims
- :Life is sacred, one of his 99 names is 'The life giver'
- Hindus
- All life deserves respect
- Fertility Treatment
- AGAINST
- Fundamentalist
- Donor ship- Infidelity
- Against God's will
- 'playing God'
- IVF creates spare embryos
- Fundamentalist
- FOR
- 'Love thy neighbour as thy self'
- Fertile couples
- Moral and loving act.
- Other religious views
- Muslims
- Allah may see it as adultery
- Muslims
- AGAINST
- Cloning
- DNA Cloning
- DNA is copied multiple times for biological experiment
- Therapeutic Cloning
- Production of human embryos for stem cell research
- Reproductive Cloning
- Animals, DNA is used and transfered to an egg with no nucleus
- FOR
- God given intelligence
- AGAINST
- Undermining humanity
- Human life is sacred
- Catholics: Immoral and unnessary
- Removes all dignity from individual
- Reduces them to a commidity
- DNA Cloning
- Animal Testing
- FOR
- Animals secondary to God
- Animal welfare must be kept balenced
- Within limits
- AGAINST
- Animals treated as if they had rights.
- Dominion, to use and not abuse
- Stewardship: to look after something that doesn't belong to you.
- FOR
- Euthanasia
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