Caring For The Old And Euthanasia

Question 1

Special needs of old people

Answer 1

1. Mental/psychological need: they want to get respect from people
2. Health/physical need: they have to take lots of medicines
3. Emotional need: suddenly had nothing to do with
4. Financial need: money is sometimes very tight
5. Social need: they consider themselves still worth listening

Question 2

society services for old people

Answer 2

1. Social security scheme / pension
2. Sheltered accommodation
3. Care home /home for the elderly
4. Home carers/ day care services

Question 3

bible teachings for care of elderly

Answer 3

1. Honour your father and mother (even when they are old)
2. Listen to your father who gave you life and do not hate your mother when she is old
3. You shall rise up before the grey headed, and honour the aged

Question 4

types of euthanasia

Answer 4

1. Active euthanasia: The dying person is killed to put them out of their suffering. What
   happens ends their life – their illness does not kill them.
2. Passive euthanasia: The dying person is allowed to die through taking away the
   medical support they have — the illness is allowed to kill them.

Question 5

reasons for euthanasia

Answer 5

The Protestant Church believes that the patient can lose all quality of life, and that
God would not wish for their suffering to continue.

Christians accept that life comes from God, but there is nothing in the bible which
states that a person must be kept alive at any cost.

Everyone has the right to decide when they have had enough.

It is an act of kindness to help someone die if that is what they really want.

Question 6

reasons against euthanasia

Answer 6

Euthanasia goes against the commandment, ‘Do not kill’.

No one has the right to take life, only God has as we are all created by him in his
image.

It is the teaching of the Catholic Church that life be respected from conception until
natural death.

To allow euthanasia would encourage it, people may force it for their own desires.