Euthinasia

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Non treatment decision (passive Euthanasia)
withdrawing life support that is keeping a person alive as they will not get better, or because the person asks them to
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Active Euthanasia
Deliberate action performed by a third party to kill someone eg lethal injection
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Sanctity of life
life is intrinsically sacred
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Quality of life
a way of weighing up the extrinsic experience of life, that affects or justifies whether or not it is worth continuing this life
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Personhood
Quality of a human life that makes it worthy
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Autonomy and the right to die
human freedom should extend to the individual deciding the time and manner of their own death
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Voluntary Euthanasia
individual requests to die, painlessly by a third party
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Non-voluntary Euthanasia
Person is unable to say whether they want to die or not, but is in a lot of pain
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Dignity
worth or quality of life linked to sanctity and freedom
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Palliative Care
end of life care so their last remaining moments are as comfortable as possible
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Involuntary Euthanasia
When a person is killed AGAINST their wishes
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Active Euthanasia

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Deliberate action performed by a third party to kill someone eg lethal injection

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Sanctity of life

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Card 4

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Quality of life

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Card 5

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Personhood

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