Matters of Death Flashcards
What is the Religious Belief about the ‘Sanctity of Life’.
The Religious belief that life is sacred (holy) and a gift from God.
What does the idea that ‘Quality of Life’ is what is important?
A measurement of fulfillment - how happy, healthy even wealthy a person is.
What is Death?
The end of life, which can be determined in several ways but normally when the brain stops functioning
What is heaven?
A state of being with God after Death (Christian, Muslim)
What is Hell?
A state of being without God (or with the devil) after Death (Christian, Muslim)
What is Purgatory?
A time of spiritual cleansing and preparation for heaven (Catholic)
What is Reincarnation?
Being born again in another form (Sikh, Hindu)
What is Rebirth?
Continuing life in Another form (Buddhist)
What is Ageism?
Discriminating against someone due to their age.
What is Euthanasia?
Inducing a painless death, by agreement and with compassion, to ease suffering. Not legal in the UK but is legal in Holland.
What is Voluntary Euthanasia?
A person gives consent to be helped to die.
What is Involuntary Euthanasia?
A person is not able to give their consent to die (Coma, Child, Paralysed).
What is Passive Euthanasia?
When the patient dies because the medical professionals either don’t do something necessary to keep the patient alive, or when they stop doing something that is keeping the patient alive (switch off life-support machines, disconnect a feeding tube, don’t carry out a life-extending operation, don’t give life-extending drugs )
What is Active Euthanasia?
When the medical professionals, or another person, deliberately do something that causes the patient to die. (Lethal injection, Administer a deadly amount of drugs)
What is Assisted Suicide?
A person gives someone the means (e.g. lethal drugs) to end their own life. Illegal in the UK but legal in Holland and Switzerland.
What is Dignitas?
A Swiss organisation that helps people end their lives.
What is a Hospice?
A place where terminally ill people, and their families, go for support and to end their lives. E.g.: Acorns, St Richard’s Hospice.
What is Palliative Care?
Care that does not cure but will make an ill person more comfortable using pain relief.
What does it mean - to keep someone alive by Ordinary means?
Someone is kept alive using drugs, care and food for example
What does it mean - to keep someone alive by ‘Extra-Ordinary’ means?
A person is kept alive on life support machines, very expensive operations for example.
Jesus said love your neighbour - how do I use this to show how Christians should treat others?
Always do the most loving thing!
Finish this quote from the bible - Honour your Father
and your Mother.
Which of the ten commandments might a Christian use when deciding about euthanasia?
5 - Do not commit murder.
What did I say that is a good quote to use to support euthanasia?
“Quality of life is more important than mere length of life…Sometimes no life is better”
Joseph Fletcher
What does the Qur’an say about taking life?
“Take not life – which Allah has made sacred – except for just cause”
The Qur’an
What does the Qur’an say about how we should treat the elderly?
‘Cherish the elderly as they cherished you in childhood’ The Qur’an
