Unit 2 (MMHB) Euthanasia, Assisted Dying, and end of-life care Flashcards
Voluntary Euthanasia?
Where a person who is terminally ill, suffering or in great pain requests to take their own life.
Non-voluntary euthanasia?
When a person is unable to provide consent and another individual makes a decision to take a persons life often believed to be in the persons best interest.
Active euthanasia?
Where an action is deliberately taken to end a persons life to relive them of suffering.
Passive Euthanasia?
When life-sustaining treatments or any sort of intervention to save someone’s life is withheld or withdrawn allowing the person to die naturally.
Assisted dying?
Where an individual is given life ending medication by other people, but the action of injecting or taking the lethal medicine must be taken by the one who requests to die. Last action must be of the patient.
Example of an organisation that provides assisted dying.
Dignitas
Legality of passive euthanasia in UK?
Can be possible by refusing to take medicine or any intervention that can be life saving. This is an example of a legal way of passive euthanasia in UK.
Legality of active euthanasia in UK?
Is illegal all throughout the UK.
Palliative care?
Focuses on easing symptoms and improving quality of life for people with serious mental or physical illnesses.
Hospice care?
Provides comfort, pain relief, and support for people in the final stages of a terminal illness, focusing on quality of life.
Example of a hospice?
St. Columba’s
Form of euthanasia, and deliberately taking an action to end one’s life?
Active euthanasia.
Form of euthanasia, and withholding or withdrawing life saving treatments?
Passive euthanasia.
3rd party assist in euthanasia, but last action must be their own?
Assisted dying.
Cannot give consent in this form if euthanasia.
Non-voluntary euthanasia.
