By: Benjamin Frattini, Ken Saxton, Karl Meissner, Anthony Collado

Period 2

Euthanasia Video

http://rt.com/news/journalist-euthanasia-disabled-newborns/

Euthanasia Definitions

• Euthanasia: the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit. 

 

http://www.euthanasia.com/definitions.html

Euthanasia Definitions

• Voluntary euthanasia:    The person killed has requested to be killed. • Non-voluntary: When the person

who is killed made no request and gave no consent.

http://www.euthanasia.com/definitions.html

Euthanasia Definitions

• Involuntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed made an expressed wish to the contrary. 

 

 

http://www.euthanasia.com/definitions.html

Euthanasia Definitions

• Assisted suicide: Someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life. 

 

 

http://www.euthanasia.com/definitions.html

Euthanasia Definitions

• Euthanasia By Action: Intentionally causing a person's death by performing an action such as by giving a lethal injection. 

 

 

http://www.euthanasia.com/definitions.html

Euthanasia Definitions

• Euthanasia By Omission: Intentionally causing death by not providing necessary and ordinary (usual and customary) care or food and water. 

   

 

http://www.euthanasia.com/definitions.html

Euthanasia Definitions

Not euthanasia unless death is intentionally caused. Thus, some medical actions sometimes labeled "passive euthanasia" are not euthanasia because intention to take life is lacking.        

http://www.euthanasia.com/definitions.html

                       Statistics

 

Study in Oregon after law allowed physician-assisted suicide  Suicides almost doubled, but only about 40 out of 10,000 deaths per year  Not common practice    

http://www.euthanasia.com/deaths2003.html

 

Dr. Jack Kevorkian 

• Assisted-suicide advocate, launched campaign for “right to die”

 • Tried for murder for his     assists, convicted in 1999 • Saw euthanasia as “helping     a suffering patient”     http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/03/report-dr-jack-kevorkian-dead

Dr. Jack Kevorkian

 

• Believed laws limiting euthanasia,   as well as limiting smoking, etc.   were infringement on rights • Died in June 2011   http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/03/report-dr-jack-kevorkian-dead

Pros and Cons 

PROS • It provides a way to

relieve extreme pain  • It provides a way of

relief when a person's quality of life is low

http://www.euthanasia.com/proscons.html

Pros and Cons 

PROS • Frees up medical

funds to help other people

 • It is another case     of freedom of choice

http://www.euthanasia.com/proscons.html

Pros and Cons 

PROS • The right to life includes the right to

die.  • Death is the opposite of life, but the

process of dying is part of life.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/infavour/infavour_1.shtml

Pros and Cons 

    CONS • Euthanasia devalues human life • Euthanasia can become a means

of health care cost containment • Doctors should not be involved in

directly causing death

http://www.euthanasia.com/proscons.html

Pros and Cons 

    CONS • Mercy killing is morally incorrect

and should be forbidden by law.  • Is a homicide • Murdering another human cannot

be rationalized under any circumstances

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/infavour/infavour_1.shtml

Catholic Church's Perspective

• Against Euthanasia • Believe that life is a gift from God • We are all made in God's image • Morally wrong

o "Thou shall not kill"    http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/euthanasia_1.shtml#h2

Catholic Church's Perspective

• The Catholic Church does not believe that people have a right to die.

 • Humans are free, but they cannot take their

own lives.       http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/euthanasia_1.shtml#h2

Catholic Church's Perspective

• The Catholic Church does believe that it is morally acceptable to refuse extraordinary medical treatment.

 • Suicide is wrong

oAssisting suicide is looked at the same way       

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/euthanasia_1.shtml#h2

  

Catholic Church's Perspective

"Nothing and no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a foetus or an embryo, an infant or"         http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/euthanasia_1.shtml#h2

Catholic Church's Perspective

"an adult, an old person, or one suffering from an incurable disease, or a person who is dying."       

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/euthanasia_1.shtml#h2    

Catholic Church's Perspective

"A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ..."         http://www.euthanasia.com/quotationsoneuthanasia.html 

Catholic Church's Perspective

"... [he] will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being..."         http://www.euthanasia.com/quotationsoneuthanasia.html

    

Catholic Church's Perspective

"... does not change depending on their circumstances."                                   -- Pope John Paul II, 2004       

   http://www.euthanasia.com/quotationsoneuthanasia.html