RE: matters of life and death KEY WORDS

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ABORTION
the removal of the fetus from the womb before it can survive
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ASSISTED SUICIDE
providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide
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EUTHANASIA
the painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease
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VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death
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NON-VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
ending someones life painlessly when they are unable to ask but you have a good reason for thinking they would want you to do so
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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 someoneabout to die has an outer body experience
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PARANORMAL
unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes e.g ghosts, 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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REINCARNATION
the belief that after death souls are reborn in a new body
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RESSURECTION
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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providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide

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ASSISTED SUICIDE

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the painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease

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ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death

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ending someones life painlessly when they are unable to ask but you have a good reason for thinking they would want you to do so

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