RPE Fact Flashcards

Question

US statistics on the people taking the prescription for Euthanasia

Answer 1

The Economist evidences Oregon, claiming that 1/3 of people given a prescription to be euthanised do not take it.

Answer 2

The decision must be serious – “it must be properly thought out, not merely the result of a temporary emotional state”. - It must be reasonable – i.e., the life should be deemed not worth living by other people. - The circumstances that make assistance necessary must be permanent. This means that assisted suicide or regular suicide must not be a possibility in the future – the person’s need for voluntary euthanasia must remain a need.

Answer 3

Jack Kevorkian Janet Adkins did this, he reported it to the police once it had happened, and was charged with murder but the judge stopped it from going to trial.

Answer 4

someone who was injured in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster. He was placed on life support and was in a deep coma. After a lengthy legal debate, this was turned off. This demonstrates that the law acknowledges that doctors cannot be expected to sustain a life at all costs. (1993)

Answer 5

Persistent Vegetative State

Answer 6

Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill is drafted by the Lib Dem MSP

Answer 7

A 23-year-old former rugby player for England, Daniel James, committed suicide in a Swiss euthanasia clinic after becoming paralyzed from the chest down in a training accident. James had felt his body became a "prison" after the accident in 2007

Answer 8

The title given to visions of Mary, the mother of Jesus, which began in 1981 to six Herzegovinian Croat teenagers in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Answer 9

1917 Sun appears to "dance" or zig-zag in the sky, careen towards the Earth, or emit multi-coloured light and radiant colors. According to these reports, the event lasted approximately ten minutes. Bishop José da Silva declared the miracle "worthy of belief" on 13 October 1930

Answer 10

A group experience in Toronto Airport chapel in 1994 in which various phenomena were reported among the congregation. This included laughter, falling over, crying, shaking uncontrollably, roaring, a feeling of intoxicating joy, and experiences of being uncoordinated. Evangelical charismatic

Answer 11

While Augustine was certainly filled with a sense of incompleteness and what he called “soul sickness” before the conversion, and while his conversion did lead to a sort of resolution of these feelings, St Augustine was 30 and so no adolescent at the time of his conversion. Further, the fruits of Augustine’s conversion demonstrate that it was not an adolescent phase or a flash-in-the-pan… it changed Christianity and so changed the world

Answer 12

His parents sent him to live with his brother in New York City when he was 15, and Cruz soon ran away and started living on the streets of the city. He became a member of the Mau Maus street gang, and about six months later Cruz was selected Warlord of the gang. He quickly rose to become their president. Shortly after Cruz became the gang leader, David Wilkerson was preaching in the neighborhood when Cruz encountered him. The preacher told Cruz that "Jesus loved him and would never stop loving him". Cruz responded by slapping Wilkerson and threatening to kill him. Wilkerson attempted again later to convert Cruz, and received the same response. Later, Wilkerson organised an evangelistic meeting in the neighborhood with the intent of converting the Mau Maus. When Cruz heard about it, he headed with some of the members of his gang for the boxing arena where the meeting was being held, on a bus sent specially by Wilkerson. According to Cruz, when he arrived at the arena, he "felt guilty about the things that he had done" and began to pray.

Answer 13

St Paul on the road to Damascus saw Jesus and was converted from a Jewish persecutor of Christianity to a Christian. Criticism of the case of St Paul: However arguably it could still be explained by mental illness. Much of Paul’s description of his experience – eg seeing a bright light, falling to the floor, being paralysed, are symptoms of epileptic seizures

Answer 14

“No distinction between the man who eats little and sees heaven and the man who drinks much and sees snakes”

Answer 15

“individual men in their solitude”

Answer 16

Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering Zoraya ter Beek, who has chronic depression, anxiety, trauma and unspecified personality disorder, expected to end her life soon

Answer 17

“inactivity of all knowledge”