Euthanasia

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Euthanasia

• By
• Joey Duggan
• Alex Freedman
• Brittany Salinas
• Kevin Siu

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Ethical Questions

• What constitutes a fully human life and how can
  we determine when it is no longer worth living?
• How can we balance individual freedom and
  pro-life social values?
• How should we regulate the administration of
  euthanasia?

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Definitions

• Active euthanasia
• Passive euthanasia
• Voluntary Active Euthanasia
• Involuntary Active Euthanasia
• Non-voluntary Active Euthanasia

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Pros!

• Intolerable Pain or Suffering

• Terminal Illness

Reason why EUTHANASIA is good

• To relieve the patients burden
• on those around them

• Free will

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OregonDeath with Dignity Law

• Enacted in Oregon in 1998
• Act authorizes physician-assisted suicide by
  lethal prescription but explicitly rejects active
  euthanasia

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In order to qualify for physician-assisted
suicide

• A person must be an Oregon resident
• 18 years of age or older
• Must have decision-making capacity
• Must be suffering from a terminal disease that
  will lead to death within six months
• One written and two oral requests for medication
  to end his or her life
• Must be an informed decision

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Utilization rates in Oregon since the law went
into effect (as of 2003)
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Cons!

• Denial of the ongoing worth of
• the lives

Reason why EUTHANASIA is bad

• Undermines impetus to develop
• approaches to the care of the
• suffering and the dying

• Perhaps not capable of choosing

• Could get out of control

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• The Church
• Where do they stand?

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Christianity teaches that all life comes from God

• Be fruitful and increase in number, fill the
  Earth and subdued it. Rule over the fish of the
  sea, and the birds of the air, and every other
  living creature that moves on the ground.
  (Genesis 126-28)

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It also teaches that life is sacred

• Your body is a temple of the Holy spirit (1
  Corinthians 619)
• Your hands shaped me and made me... Did you not
  clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me
  together with bones and sinews? You gave me life
  and showed me kindness, and in your providence
  watched over my spirit (Job 108-12)

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Human beings are not to choose whether they die

• For every thing there is a reason, and a time
  for every matter under heaven, a time to be born,
  a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to
  pluck up what is planted (Ecclesiastes 1-4)

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Roman Catholic Church is strongly opposed to
euthanasia
The Gospel of Life

• Four reasons
• Euthanasia is a murder
• Euthanasia is contrary human dignity
• Euthanasia destroys respect to God
• There is a clear difference discounting treatment
  and actively killing someone

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Christian Churchs encourage the support of
hospices
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Ethical Questions

• What constitutes a fully human life and how can
  we determine when it is no longer worth living?
• How can we balance individual freedom and
  pro-life social values?
• How should we regulate the administration of
  euthanasia?

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