NET Euthanasia Flashcards
living will
- similar to ‘do not resuscitate’
- refusal of specific treatments ahead of time, explaining the cirumstance
natural moral law and euth (synderesis)
- dont kill: sanctity OL, primary precepts
- it is evil to prolong a life that doesnt want to continue/is suffering and is in pain
natural moral law and euth (teleology)
- euthanasia: death doesngt allows a person to achieve their telos; their illness had a higher purpose to develop as a moral agent through virtue development (fellowship with God)
natural moral law and euth (primary precepts)
- W: SOL
- D: do not commit
- O: allowed causes a slippery slope, and no order
- if illegal people may need to go to extreme dangerous methods, and is discrimination of the weak
natural moral law and euth (deontology)
- doctors take the Hippocratic oath to preserve their patients life
- ‘love thy neighbour’ –> if they want assistance they should treat them with the same love
natural moral law and euth (secondary precepts)
- do not commit suicide
- do not commit murder, do not assist in a suicide as it is against god
natural moral law and euth (real and apparent goods)
- an apparent good would be helping someone to die if they wish –> alleviating their pain, and putting resources that would keep them alive elsewhere
- the real good is suffering like jesus did on the cross
natural moral law and euth (interior and exterior acts)
- interior: taking into account the feelings of the patient
- exterior: deontologically still murder
natural moral law and euth (God)
- god gave us a telos to fulfill; suffering like jesus is his plan and we cannot overule
- only god can take life –> SOL
- in death we cannot achieve his plan or reach fellowship with him
natural moral law and euth (double effect)
- needs to have a good exterior act, but death can be seen as positive or negative –> hard to justify
- can work with a morphine overdose, that was to alleviate pain
natural moral law and euth (reason)
- should use reason, can come to both conc
- aquinas would say no –> anyone with reason would say this
sit ethics and euth (teleological)
- e is providing good as it alleviates pain –> better end than suffering
sit ethics and euth (situationist as opposed to legalist/antinomian)
- situation ethics, case by case, most loving, can E if needed –> not following laws or no regulation
sit ethics and euth (agape)
- need to demonstrate love for the person who wishes to end their life
sit ethics and euth (four working principles)
- Prag: realistic solution if implemented already in some countries, good for people in palliative care if they want to end illness
- Rel: case by case: if a person wants to end their life, they should; should consider all the affected parties tho, like family
- pos: shows gods love as relieving chronic pain but agaisnt SOL and telos etc
- pers: the person can have a dignified death, comforting the family
sit ethics and euth (six fundamental principles)
- love only is always good: if it brings love its okay, can alleviate the pain of dying
- love is the only norm: euthanasia is the only right decision if it brings about love for all parts (rejection of the absoolute)
- love and justice are the same: loving=just=law, law is just and loving so it should be followed (not allowed) –> not just has not proportionately available as it is expensive
- love is not liking: do not need to agree with it or the persons choice to allow it
- love justifies the means: action becomes irrelevant as it is loving to carry out
- love decides there and then: based of a persons unique decision in that moment
virtue ethics and euth (teleology)
- end purpose cannot be achieved if dead
virtue ethics and euth (eudaimonia)
- can be happy if released from suffering, but will never achieve it in life
virtue ethics and euth (pleasure, honour, contemplation)
- people who live for pleasure become ill –> want to die as life is no longer pleasurable (selfish as you leave behind loved ones)
- contemplation: reflect on actions, autonomy
virtue ethics and euth (reason)
- subjective, current situation can influence critical thinking (illness/medication)
virtue ethics and euth (community)
- ALLOW IT: euthanatos (good death)
- should choose how you die
- no, people may try to take their lives in dangerous ways
virtue ethics and euth (doctrine of the mean)
- deficiency and excess, can society be too extreme (dignitas vs banned in the UK)
virtue ethics and euth (moral virtues)
- courage: is it facing your pain and suffering or is it committing suicide
virtue ethics and euth (intellectual virtues)
- phronesis: judgement, practical wisdom
virtue ethics and euth (friendship)
- dead = no friednships
- can foster friendships with shared experience
