Issues of Life and Death Key-Terms

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Define Afterlife
life after death, the belief tha existence continues after physial death
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Define Environmental Sustainability
ensuring that demands placed on natural resourcses can be met without reducing the capacity to allow all speices to live well now and in the fututre
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Define Euthanaisa
from greek "eu" good and "thantos" death, often known as mercy killing. the act of killing or permitting the death of somone who is suffering from a serious illness
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Define Evolution
the process by which all living species are believed to have developed from earlier less complex froms during the history of the earth
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Define Abortion
the deliberate termination of a human foetus so that it does nor result in the birth of a child
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Define Quality of Life
the extent to which life is meaningful and pleasurable
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Define Sanctity of Life
the belief that life is precious, sacred and a gift from god. For many only human life holds this specail status
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Define Soul
the spiritual aspect of a being, that connects someone to God, often seen as non physical and as living on after physical death.
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Define Euthanaisa

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Define Evolution

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Define Abortion

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