Matters of Death

Question 1

What is the definition of Death?

Answer 1

The end of life of a person

Question 2

What is Heaven?

Answer 2

A good place where God is above the sky after death

Question 3

What is Hell?

Answer 3

A bad place after death which is where evil and suffering is (beneath the ground)

Question 4

What is Purgatory?

Answer 4

A place of suffering by souls of sinners before going to heaven

Question 5

What is Reincarnation?

Answer 5

Rebirth of soul in another body

Question 6

What is Rebirth?

Answer 6

A process of being reborn?

Question 7

What is Ageism?

Answer 7

Discriminating on the grounds of an persons age

Question 8

What is Euthanasia?

Answer 8

The painless killing of a patient suffering from a painful disease

Question 9

What is a Life Support Machine?

Answer 9

Device that helps someone breathe

Question 10

What is Mourning?

Answer 10

Expression of sorrow for someone’s death

Question 11

What is Hospice?

Answer 11

A place that provides care for sick people

Question 12

Name the 5 types of Euthanasia

Answer 12

Voluntary
Involuntary
Passive
Active
Compulsory

Question 13

What is Voluntary Euthanasia?

Answer 13

The patient has asked for it (drug)

Question 14

What is a Involuntary Euthanasia?

Answer 14

The painless killing is performed without the dying patient being told (coma patient)

Question 15

What is Passive Euthanasia?

Answer 15

Doctors give a painkilling drug but do nothing to save the patient

Question 16

What is Active Euthanasia?

Answer 16

Doctors give the patient painkilling drugs knowing that the drug will also kill the patient

Question 17

What is Compulsory Euthanasia?

Answer 17

The painless killing has to be performed because a person has a certain illness and has reached a certain age

Question 18

Give statements for Euthanasia

Answer 18

Can quickly end a patients suffering allowing them to die
Can help shorten grief and suffering of a patients loved ones
Everyone has the right to decide how they should die
Death is a private matter

Question 19

Give statements against Euthanasia

Answer 19

The right to die implies a duty to kill
The medical personnel who commit Euthanasia suffers personal consequences
Euthanasia devalues some lives
Euthanasia encourages vulnerable people to end their lives

Question 20

Give the religious viewpoints on Euthanasia

Answer 20

Christians:
Against Euthanasia
Arguments are usually based on their beliefs that ‘God gives life, only God can take it away’
Therefore, no human being has the authority to take life of any innocent person even if the person wants to die

Hindu:
They say a doctor would not accept a patients request for Euthanasia since this will cause the soul and body to be separated at a unnatural time. Result will damage Karma of Doctor and patient
Some believe that Euthanasia cannot be allowed because it breaches the teaching of ahimsa (‘doing no harm’)
Helping to end a painful life of a person performing is a good deed

Islam:
Against Euthanasia
All human life is sacred because it’s given by Allah and he chooses how long each person will live
‘When their time comes, they cannot delay it for a single hour nor can they bring it forward by a single hour’

Judaism:
Jewish law and tradition regard human life as sacred and say that it is wrong for anyone to shorten a human life
‘One must struggle until the last breath of life’

Sikhism:
Have a high respect for life which they see as a gift from God
Against Euthanasia as they believe timing of birth and death should be left in God’s hands