are strongly held norms, which epitomize the deeply held standards of what is right, and wrong (Stolley, 2005). Flashcards
are strongly held norms, which epitomize the deeply held standards of what is right, and wrong (Stolley, 2005).
Mores
Australian state parliament of Victoria, has legalized voluntary euthanasia after 20 years (McGuirk, 2017).
November 2017
also called as assisted suicide,
euthanasia,
voluntary active euthanasia is the administration, by the physician, of a lethal agent (or the administration of a therapeutic agent at lethal dose), actively permitted by the patient, with the intent to cause the latter’s death, for the purpose of relieving intolerable, intractable, and incurable pain.
Handbook of Clinical Neurology (2013),
Assisted suicide is the doctor’s deliberate assistance in mplementing a patient’s suicide plan.
Physician
The rightness or wrongness of an act makes us, willingly or unwillingly, confront the morality of our decisions.
Moral Standards
is the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason, that is, to do what there are the best reasons for doing-while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual who will be affected by what one does (Rachels, 2003).
MORALITY
refers to the philosophical concept of morality, endeavors to understand moral concepts and justify moral principles.
Ethics
Principles on which one’s judgments of right and wrong are based
Morals
It analyzes concepts such as right and wrong, and seeks to establish principles of right behavior that may serve as guides to action for people to follow (Pojman, 1992).
Ethics
Guiding principles of conduct of an individual or group
Ethics
Influenced by profession, field, organization, etc.
Ethics
Influenced by society, culture and religion
Morals
Not related to professional work
Morals
Related to professional work
Ethics
Vary according to different cultures and religions
Morals
Uniform compared to morals
Ethics
He describes that morality is achieved when a set of possible mores of any social group are observed and achieved.
Mason 1996
are strongly held norms, which epitomize the deeply held standards of what is right, and wrong (Stolley, 2005).
Mores
ethical principles that we live by and believe. These are important blueprints of our behavior, which we abide by daily, and are influenced by our society, or by certain ethical universals.
Moral standards
unwanted principles, which are in opposition to everything that we are expected to be and do. Likewise, non-moral standards are influenced largely by the constructs prescribed in our society.
Non-moral standards
“We are capable of making judgments about our own and other people’s behavior, and have the capacity consciously to change the way we behave and society as whole.”
-Guldberg (2011)
expounds that moral conflict is a fact of moral life. It is something that we can never do away with. It is embedded in the crucial decisions that we make, particularly in moments that we are faced with what is and what should be.
H.E. Mason (1996),
exists to at least help a patient die a good death.
Euthanasia