Euthanasia Key Words Flashcards
1
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Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
A
A condition where a patient with severe brain damage is in a state of very limited arousal rather than true awareness or consciousness, usually an irreversible condition
2
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Palliative Care?
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The use of drugs and medicine to relieve pain but without directly causing the death of the patient
3
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Vitalism?
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The view that human life is always sacred because it possesses a god given soul
4
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What is a slippery slope argument?
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An argument that claims if a rule is weakened, even for good reasons, then what eventually follows if the rule is again weakened for good reasons will be highly undesirable
5
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Eugenics
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- ‘The production of good off-spring’
- Used to justify producing racially and intellectually ‘superior’ humans through selective breeding and termination of ‘inferior’ humans
