When a person dies as a result of their own voluntary action
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Assisted Suicide
When a person dies as a direct result of their own vountary action but with the help of another person
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Physician adied suicide
When a person dies as a direct result of thier own voluntary action but with the help of a doctor/ physician
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Physician aid in dying
When a persons death is hastened but not directly caused by the aid of the doctor/phsycian
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Voluntary Euthanasia
When a persond death is directly caused by another person, at their request and with thier consent.
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Passive Euthanasia
When a doctor or physican withdraws life sustaining treatement which indirectly causes death, alternatively the physician allows a patient to die, by letting 'nature take its course'
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Non-voluntary Euthanasia
When a persons life is ended without thier consent but with the consent of someone representing their intrests
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Persistent vegetative state
A condition where a patient with servere brain damage is in a state of very limited arousal rather than true awareness or consciousness. The condition is regarded as irreversible
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Palliative Care
The use of drugs and medicine to relieve pain but without directly causing the death of patients
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Vitalism
The view that human life is always sacred because it possesses a God-given soul
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Slippery Slope
An argument that claims that is a rule is wekened, even for good reason, then what eventually follows if the rule is again weakened for good reason will be highly undesirable
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Eugenics
Literally 'the production of good off-spring', but is used to justify producing racially and interlectually 'superior' humans through selective breading and the termination of 'inferior' humans
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Strong sanctity of life
The belief that human life is always valuable form the moment of conception until a natural death. As a 'strong' principle there are no exceptions
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Ordinary and extrodinary means
Makes a distinction between means which are obligatory (or)
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Ordinary and extrodinary means
Makes a distinction between means which are obligatory (ordinary) and means which are additional (extraordinary) and therefore not necessarily obligatory
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Incarnation
The Christian teaching that God became human in the form of Jesus Christ
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Intrinsic Value
Means that somethign or someone is of value in itself and independently of whether it is of value or use to someone else
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Blasphemy
Means to dishonour God by setting oneself up to be equal or greater than he is
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Weak sancitity of life principle
The belief that although human life is alwway valuable, there may be situations where it would cause more harm than good to continue with it
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Quality of life principle
States that human life has to possess certain attributes in order to have value. These attributes might include experience of ahppiness, having autonomy and being conscious
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Instrumenaslism
The view that something or someone is of value only if it is useful and achieves a desired end or purpose
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Liberal Principle
As developed by Mill and others is that as humans are the best judge of their own happiness they should be given maximum freedom or liberty to live thier lives as they consider appropriate
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Paternalism
Means literally 'to act in a fatherly way' and justifies overriding a persons autonomy it if is for their own good
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
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When a person dies as a direct result of their own vountary action but with the help of another person
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Assisted Suicide
Card 3
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When a person dies as a direct result of thier own voluntary action but with the help of a doctor/ physician
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Card 4
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When a persons death is hastened but not directly caused by the aid of the doctor/phsycian
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Card 5
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When a persond death is directly caused by another person, at their request and with thier consent.
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