Euthanasia Flashcards
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Euthanasia
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The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.
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Slippery Slope Argument
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accepting euthanasia will lead to the acceptance of things that are currently unacceptable
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Arguments FOR Euthanasia
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- People should be able to choose how and when they die
- it lessens pain to the patient
- stops the suffering of a loved one
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Arguments AGAINST Euthanasia
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- patient isn’t always able to make a choice (involuntary)
- could be used for legal murder
- ‘suicide’ is illegal
- natural death shouldn’t be feared
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Christian views
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- most against it: sanctity of life
- some for it: most loving thing to do
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Christian quotes
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- FOR: “There is a season for everything - a time to live and a time to die”
- FOR: “Do to others as you would have them do to you”
- AGAINST: “Do not murder”
- AGAINST: “I, your God, give life and I take it away”
- AGAINST: No man has authority over the day of death”
- AGAINST: “Your body is the temple of the holy spirit”
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Islam quotes
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- AGAINST: “Do not take life, which Allah made sacred”
- AGAINST: “Destroy not yourselves”
