Euthanasia

Question 1

What is euthanasia generally?

Answer 1

Painless killing of an individual with a painful or incurable disease.

Question 2

What is assisted suicide?

Answer 2

Intentionally helping someone who is not terminally ill kill themselves.

Question 3

What is assisted dying?

Answer 3

Individual who is terminally ill administers a lethal drug from a medical practitioner

Question 4

What are two types of euthanasia?

Answer 4

-voluntary
-non voluntary

Question 5

What is voluntary and non voluntary euthanasia?

Answer 5

Voluntary-request to die, done by family or doctor and they make a will
Non voluntary- unable to give consent so many are involved to make a judgement usually when there unresponsive controversial

Question 6

What is active euthanasia?

Answer 6

Directly and intentionally cause the death of a patient.

Question 7

what is Passive euthanasia?

Answer 7

Withhold or withdrew treatment indirectly causing the death of a individual.

Question 8

What is the hippocratic oath of medicine?

Answer 8

-greek physician
-to never cause the death of a patient
-active immoral but passive may be moral

Question 9

In terms of the law what does it say about all of it?

Answer 9

-assited suicide illegal
-suicide is legal
-active, unlikely to be prosecuted but still would be investigated
-passive, legal

Question 10

Why would deontologists say that the distinction is helpful?

Answer 10

omission is not murder because intention matters if a doctor refrains from giving medicine that’s nature taking its course.

Question 11

Why would teleologist say that the distinction is not helpful?

Answer 11

Because what matters is the outcome and both result in the death of a patient.

Question 12

What did James Rachel argue?

Answer 12

The distinction isn’t helpful however passive is worse as it takes longer to die.
uncle wanting to inherit his nephews fortune

Question 13

What would the Docterine of Double effects argue?

Answer 13

If a doctor gave a strong drug such as morphine to relieve the pain and it resulted in there death the interior act was good so therefore this isn’t seen as murder.

Question 14

What would go against the docterine of double effects?

Answer 14

If the negative consequence is foreseen whos to say it wasn’t intended.

Question 15

What is the difference between ordinary treatment and extraordinary treatment?

Answer 15

ordinary-directly available, reasonable success rate, basic as food and water
Extraordinary-cannot be used without causing pain,e.g life support

Question 16

What does the catholic church say about ordinary and extraordinary treatment?

Answer 16

your able to morally reject extraordinary however it is a moral sin to not accept ordinary treatment.

Question 17

What is Palliative care and how does it differ from hospice care?

Answer 17

Palliative care is given at any point of an individuals life due to chronic illness. Hospice is at the end of someones life.

Question 18

What are three ways Palliative care benefits an individual?

Answer 18

-physically
-psychosocially
-spiritually

Question 19

Explain the case study of Tony bland.

Answer 19

-in a vegetative state due to brain damage
-Court allowed for his feeding tube to be withdrawn
-first patient in England to have passive euthanasia

Question 20

Explain the case study of Diane pretty.

Answer 20

-paralyzed
-assisted dying from husband
denied requests
-died due to difficulty breathing which is what she feared would happen

Question 21

Explain the case of Baby charlotte.

Answer 21

-brain damage
-if she fell into a come they aren’t allowed to resuscitate her
-They didnt find her life sacred

Question 22

explain Patricia and Frank Lundt case.

Answer 22

-wife depressed due to bowel syndrome
-apparently asked for a successful death husband smothered her with a pillow
-guilty for murder
-no one who supports euthanasia supported him