Euthanasia
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- Created on: 17-05-17 10:42
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- Religious attitudes to the elderly and Death
- Euthanasia
- Religious teachings
- Christianity- Christians usually disagree with euthanasia because of their belief in the sanctity of life, preferring to trust in God's mercy. Some however cannot believe that a loving god would want his people to suffer.
- They may argue that God given freewill and intelligence give a person the right to choose when to end their life when the quality has been greatly reduced.
- Islam- Only Allah can take life, so euthanasia is therefore against his plan. However, passive euthanasia may be regarded as an act of compassion and not true euthanasia as it allows nature to take its course
- Judaism-Life is God given and therefore must be treasured. Because God gives life only he can take it away
- Christianity- Christians usually disagree with euthanasia because of their belief in the sanctity of life, preferring to trust in God's mercy. Some however cannot believe that a loving god would want his people to suffer.
- Quotes
- "You shall not murder" Exodus 20:13
- "Nor take life which Allah has made sacred except for just cause"-Quran 17:33
- Don't you know that you your selves are god's temple and that God's spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him" 1Corinthians
- Definition
- Inducing a painless death by agreement and with compassion, to ease suffering-from the Greek meaning "good death"
- Voluntary-the person asks a doctor to end their life
- non- voluntary-the person is too ill to ask but it is believed to be in their best interests
- involuntary-as happened in Nazi Germany , disabled and sick people were killed without consulatation
- non- voluntary-the person is too ill to ask but it is believed to be in their best interests
- types of euthanasia
- Passive - this is either where the dose of a pain killing drug is increased in the belief that it will not only control pain but also shorten life or where treatment is withheld because all it is doing is delaying the natural process of death
- active - withholding treatment with the deliberate intention of ending life or giving a drug that will end life
- Religious teachings
- The Hospice Movement
- Definition
- A special place where people go to die with dignity
- Definition
- Euthanasia
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