Euthanasia

Question 1

What is active euthanasia?

Answer 1

Directly & deliberately kill someone - lethal dose painkillers

Question 2

What is passive euthanasia?

Answer 2

Indirectly killing someone - withholding food and treatment

Question 3

What is voluntary euthanasia?

Answer 3

Carried out at request of dead person.

Question 4

What is non-voluntary euthanasia?

Answer 4

Dead person unconscious, other person decides - baby

Question 5

What is palliative care?

Answer 5

Medical, emotional & spiritual care given to terminally ill person.

Question 6

What is a living will?

Answer 6

Says how patient wants to be treatment if become ill.

E.g. DNR - DO NOT RESUSCITATE!

Question 7

2 pro life arguments

Answer 7

If palliative care good enough, no need.
Human life is sacred
Against Hippocratic oath

Question 8

2 pro choice arguments

Answer 8

Loss of quality of life

Psychological problems - depression

Question 9

What do Christians say?

Answer 9

Christ suffered, we do too.
Human life is sacred.
‘Do not kill’

Question 10

2 bible verses

Answer 10

Exodus 20:13 - You shall not murder

Leviticus 24:17 - Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death

Question 11

Law on euthanasia?

Answer 11

14 years in prison

Question 12

What is a hospice?

Answer 12

Gives palliative care for patient & family.

Question 13

Who and when was the hospice movement set up?

Answer 13

Cicely Saunders

1967

Question 14

What is Euthanasia?

Answer 14

Act of killing someone painlessly to relieve suffering from incurable illness.

Question 15

What is the law like in different countries?

Answer 15

In Switzerland it is legal, so people can go there to have it done. If someone helps them in Northern Ireland, they will go to jail.

Question 16

Give 1 case of euthanasia and trying to change the law, explain.

Answer 16

Diane Pretty (2002)
Had motor neurone disease, wanted law changed.
Died in May 2002 by choking to death.