Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Euthanasia
Euthanasia
Euthanasia
1. VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
2. INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
3. NON-VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
1. VOLUNTARY
EUTHANASIA
1. EUTHANASIA PERFORMED WITH THE PATIENT'S CONSENT IS
CALLED VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA.
THE MORAL DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN KILLING AND LETTING DIE.
MANY PEOPLE MAKE A MORAL
DISTINCTION BETWEEN ACTIVE AND
PASSIVE EUTHANASIA. THEY THINK THAT
IT IS ACCEPTABLE TO WITHHOLD
TREATMENT AND ALLOW A PATIENT TO
DIE, BUT THAT IT IS NEVER ACCEPTABLE
TO KILL A PATIENT BY A DELIBERATE ACT.
LEGAL ISSUES
LET ME POINT OUT HERE FOR THOSE
WHO MIGHT NOT KNOW IT THAT
SUICIDE IS NO LONGER A CRIME
ANYWHERE IN THE ENGLISH-
SPEAKING WORLD. (IT USED TO BE,
AND WAS PUNISHABLE BY GIVING
ALL THE DEAD PERSON'S MONEY AND
GOODS TO THE GOVERNMENT.)
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IS NO LONGER A
CRIME, ALTHOUGH UNDER HEALTH
LAWS A PERSON CAN IN MOST STATES
BE FORCIBLY PLACED IN A
PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL FOR THREE
DAYS FOR EVALUATION.
ETHICAL ISSUES
WHETHER THE ISSUE IS EUTHANASIA OR
PHYSICIAN’S ASSISTED DEATH, THE HEART OF THE
CONTROVERSY IS WHETHER THERE ARE ANY
MORALLY JUSTIFIABLE REASONS TO KILL ONESELF.
SOME REAL LIFE
EXAMPLES OF
EUTHANASIA
1) A 14 YEAR OLD CHILEAN GIRL WHO ASKED
THE PRESIDENT TO LET HER DIE
2) THE TERMINALLY ILL 29-YEAR-OLD WIFE
WHO MOVED TO OREGON TO HAVE THE RIGHT
TO DIE ON HER OWN TERMS
3) THE HEALTHY WOMAN WHO WANTED TO DIE
BESIDE HER AILING HUSBAND
4) THE TWINS WHO WERE GOING BLIND AND
ASKED TO BE EUTHANIZED
5) THE WOMAN WITH A LARGE FACE TUMOR
WHO ENDED HER LIFE WITH ILLEGAL
EUTHANASIA DRUGS
OUR THOUGHTS ON EUTHANASIA!
THANK
YOU!