COMPOSING QUOTES - EUTHANASIA

Question 1

QUOTE 1 - Maryannick Pavageau

Answer 1

‘I am firmly against euthanasia because it is not physical suffering that guides the desire to die but a moment of discouragement, feeling like a burden … All those who ask to die are mostly looking for love’

Question 2

QUOTE 2 -

Answer 2

‘it is preferable to be dead than to be sick or disabled’

Question 3

QUOTE 3 - Dr. Richard Fenigsen

Answer 3

‘20 to 40 percent of medical diagnoses prove wrong when confronted with the ultimate criterion of truth, the autopsy. This means that the licence to cause deaths on the grounds of medical diagnoses can lead to tragic mistakes.’

Question 4

QUOTE 4 - Dr. Richard Fenigsen

Answer 4

‘The Dutch experience has shown that the acceptance of death as a medical solution is suppressing the performance of doctors and nurses in critical situations when life is threatened but can still be saved’

Question 5

STATISTICS 1

Answer 5

According to a survey, 76% of people are in favour of legalisation of Euthanasia, while 15% are opposed.

Question 6

STATISTICS 2

Answer 6

39% of doctors were in favour of a change to the law to allow assisted suicide, 49% opposed a change and 12% neither agreed nor disagreed.