Euthanasia Flashcards
What the current law on euthanasia
Can help terminally ill people with less than 6 months to loveo
How mant declarations need to be made
2
What does euthanasia means
‘Good death’. Eu ‘good’ and thanatos means ‘death’
What is Palative care
Illness cannot be cured and makes you comfortable as possible by managing pain and other distressing symptoms .
Invovled psychological, social and spiritual support got you and your family or carers
Why is palative care also called the holistic approach
Because it deals with you as a ‘whole’ person not a illness or symptoms
When is palative care offered
when first learning about life-limiting illness and still receives other therapist to treat your conditions
When is palative care received
when close to end of life
what does the 1961 suicide act have to say
Ruke of law whereby is a crime to commit suicide is hereby abrogated
Person who aids abets consels or procures the suicide of another or attempt by anther commit of suicide shall be liable for a term not exceeding fourteen years
If on trial of indictment for murder or manslaughter it proved that accessed aided, abetted, counselled or procured the suicide of the person in question, just may find him guilty of that offence
Where is euthanasia legal
Switzerland - can get it even if you dont live there
USA - Washington and new jersey
Netherlands
How is Diane Pretty different to those of baby charlotte
One of the first thing is age. Diane is a grown up and at age in which she should and can make own decisions so when asked about euthanasia had better understanding. Charlotte isn’t capable of that and her parents was in charge of her decisions for her.
What quote can we use for the slippery slope argument
Create a new act to permit physician aid in dying, proposal states be a bill to ‘enable a competent adult who is suffering unbearably as a result of a terminal illness to receive medical assistance to due at his own considered and persistent request; and to make a provision for a person suffering from a terminal illness to receive pain relief medication” therefore legitimate reasons to assist in person death also permit non-lethal conditions.
Explain the slippery slope arguement
That if we legalise one thing means we will have to legalise alot more things and causing some negative effects.
What does quality of life have to do with euthanasia
it grounds euthansia for those who request it, logcally could be extended to those who dont or unable to
What is the problems with netherlands and the slippery slope argument
Evidence to indicate that many die against their wishes, shows the law cannot easily place safeguards against those who simply choose to ignore them
what is the quality of life
focusing on white is happening in the persons life. If they are happy and achieving stuff they wish to achieve. Therefore unhealthy can still be happy. Therefore someone means that the someone with a poor quality of life might not be happy and therefore arent experiencing good life
what is the sanctity of life
Once focuses more on the idea that life is a gift and so we shouldnt be in charge of choosing when we can and cant throw it away. Having life is out of our understanding.
Does situation ethics reject or approve legalistic approaches
moral decision making, grounded in the situation, the experience of the person involved and all those affected
does situation ethics use conditional or unconditional love
Unconditional
Who wrote ‘morals and medicine’ and what was it about
Fletcher when he served for president of euthanasia society of america and wrote there were no absolute moral standards to guide medical treatment and that the right thing to do should be guided by the patients condition and situation, “do not kill” shouldnt be the start point.
What was the list that fletcher madde to have a ‘good quality of life’
Miminal intelligence IQ of 20
Self awareness and self control
Sense of passage of time
Concern for others
communication
control of existence
curiosity
possibility of change
balance of rationality and feeling
having an identity
Neocortical function (thinking)
Natural law theory have to say on euthansia
Concerned with morally good actions and goodness of those actions is determined by extent to which they accord with external law, law with higher authority, and a process of reasoning helps determine what is right and what is wrong. Actions with taking ones life or that of another, all come under scrutiny
What are some of the key precepts should focus on during euthansia
Do good and avoid evil and preserve life
What quote from the bible does NLT use to defend against euthanasia
“which they are called upon to preserve and make faithful”
Euthanasia is seen to be an apparent good …
seems to alleviate the suffering of the person is failing to recognise a greater good which is related to intrinsic nature of life, christians thought is related to persons place in mystery of God’s greater plan
