voluntary euthanasia Flashcards
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sanctity & quality of life
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sanctity - all life is special, many religious believers hold this, all life is sacred and shouldn’t be destroyed
quality - how good one’s life is, includes how comfortable they feel & how easy it is for them to live, about whether life is worth living
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legislation
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- suicide act of 1961 de-criminalised suicide
- 2006 assisted dying bill which allowed terminally ill to seek medical assistance to end their life
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key terms
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voluntary euthansia - person chooses to end own life & requests another end it for them
non-voluntary - another person chooses to end life for them
involuntary - person doesn’t wish to die but decision made to end their life
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nml
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- rejects any form of it
- ‘it is not lawful for man to take his own life’
- most fearsome evil is death as it is contrary to natural inclination of any life form to stay alive as it injures community
- rejects primary precept of preserving life & worship god & ordered society
- most christians refer to sanctity of life
- example - chantel sebire refused right to die by french court as suffered from an incurable face tumour & shortly after her denial was found dead by own hands
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situation ethics
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- no set rules
- in ‘morals and medicines’ fletcher asks what purposes are sufficient to justify loss of one’s life & suggests relief from demoralising pain with no purpose or serving others is sufficient
- quality of life
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