Dignity In Death And Dying Flashcards
Movement that promotes the ability to meet death on your own terms
Dying w/ Dignity
Physician assisted suicide doctor gives permission for the patient to do so
Suicide
Doctor allowed by law to end a person’s life by painless means, as long as the patient and their family agrees - easy death, incurable and agonizing death
Euthanasia
W/ consent current legal
Voluntary
Unable to provide consent due to their health condition decision made by another person
Non voluntary
Performed on a person who wanted to be able to provide informed consent but does not either because they do not want to die or become they were not around
Involuntary
Important life between ehitcs religion and ethics of law
Inviolability of human life
Term used was a person cannot survivec sometimes for some sort of ulterior seen to be kept alive in a considerion where they cannot survive
Dysthanasia
Cases of Euthanasia
Self Adminbistered
Other Administered
Voluntary requested by the patient
Active and Voluntary
Voluntary request upon by the patient with no positive method employed - morally permitted and no positive methodd
Passive and Voluntary Method
The termination of the patient’’s life is decided by an indicated other then the patient
Active and non voluntary euthanasia
No positive means of other person make the moral decision to terminate the patient’s life
Pleasure and non voluntary euthanasia
Faulty and imperfect death
Undue prolongation of the process of death with the help of tech devices that allows life sustaining interventions
Dysthanasia
Unnecessary procedures
Avoid the provesures to safeguard the same accusation
Defensive medicine
