Matters of life & death

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  • Created by: stokiwill
  • Created on: 02-11-13 20:00
Abortion
the removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive.
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Assisted Suicide
a seriously ill person with a means to commit suicide.
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Ethanasia
an easy and gentle death
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Immortality Of The Soul
the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body.
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Near-Death Experience
when someone about to die has an out-of–body experience
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Non-Voluntary Euthanasia
ending someone’s life painlessly when they are not able to ask, but you have good reason for believing they would want you to do so (e.g. switching off a life-support machine).
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Paranormal
unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes, for example, ghosts and mediums.
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Quality of life
the idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living.
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Re-incarnation
the belief that after death, souls are reborn into a new body.
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Resurrection
the belief that after death the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised.
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Sanctity of life
the belief that life is holy and belongs to God
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Voluntary euthanasia
the situation where someone dying in pain asks a doctor to end his/her life painlessly.
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a seriously ill person with a means to commit suicide.

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Assisted Suicide

Card 3

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an easy and gentle death

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Card 4

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the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body.

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Card 5

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when someone about to die has an out-of–body experience

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