EUTHANASIA

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EUTHANASIA

Advantages

  • Could end suffering and pain
  • Die with Dignity
  • Pro choice
  • Can shorten grief for loved ones
  • E.G Lynn Gilderdale
  • "do the most loving thing"
  • God gave us free will
  • "love thy neighbour"

Disadvantages

  • Seen as murder
  • "Life is precious" - Sanctity of life
  • "Thou shall not kill"
  • "Neither kill nor destroy yourself" - Qur'an
  • "I, your God gave life and only i can take life away"
  • Other options, e.g. palliative care
  • Some people might take advantage of euthanasia for inheritance
  • E.G Dr Harold Shipman

Evaluation

NON - VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA: where a person is too ill to request too die so a family member requests on their behalfVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA: when a terminally ill patient requests to die to end pain and sufferingPASSIVE EUTHANASIA: where the treatment keeping a patient alive is stopped, for example: life support is turned offACTIVE EUTHANASIA: when active steps are taken to end a patients life

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