Religion and medical ethics: Euthanaisa and suicide
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- Religion and medical ethics: Euthanaisa and suicide
- Euthanasia
- What is it?
- A gentle and easy death, the bringing about of this in cases of incurable and painful disease.
- What is it?
- Suicide
- What is it?
- Ending own life
- What is it?
- The law
- Euthanasia
- Anyone in the UK who helps the sufferer end their life risks the possibility of being charged with manslaughter. This includes doctors.
- Suicide
- Suicide was legalised late 1960's
- Euthanasia
- Controversial because...
- Does anyone have the right to end/take a life? Even their own?
- Should doctors be playing God?
- Is the person involoved in the right state of mind to make a decision?
- Christian attitudes
- "The Lord gives and the Lord takes away."
- Job
- Jesus heals the sick and dying in the New Testiment, he doesn't end their life
- All human life is made in the image of God
- "Love your neighbour"
- Is it loving to end suffering?
- This means we should be nursing and removing pain, not ending life.
- "The Lord gives and the Lord takes away."
- Euthanasia
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