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