By: Benjamin Frattini, Ken Saxton, Karl Meissner, Anthony Collado Period 2

Euthanasia Video

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Euthanasia Definitions
Euthanasia: the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit.

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Euthanasia Definitions
Voluntary euthanasia: The person killed has requested to be killed. Non-voluntary: When the person who is killed made no request and gave no consent.
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Euthanasia Definitions
Involuntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed made an expressed wish to the contrary.

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Euthanasia Definitions
Assisted suicide: Someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life.

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Euthanasia Definitions
Euthanasia By Action: Intentionally causing a person's death by performing an action such as by giving a lethal injection.

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Euthanasia By Omission: Intentionally causing death by not providing necessary and ordinary (usual and customary) care or food and water.

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Euthanasia Definitions
Not euthanasia unless death is intentionally caused. Thus, some medical actions sometimes labeled "passive euthanasia" are not euthanasia because intention to take life is lacking.

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Statistics
Study in Oregon after law allowed physicianassisted suicide Suicides almost doubled, but only about 40 out of 10,000 deaths per year Not common practice

http://www.euthanasia.com/deaths2003.html

Dr. Jack Kevorkian

Assisted-suicide advocate, launched campaign for right to die Tried for murder for his assists, convicted in 1999 Saw euthanasia as helping a suffering patient

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/03/report-dr-jack-kevorkian-dead

Dr. Jack Kevorkian

Believed laws limiting euthanasia, as well as limiting smoking, etc. were infringement on rights

Died in June 2011

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/03/report-dr-jack-kevorkian-dead

Pros and Cons

PROS It provides a way to relieve extreme pain It provides a way of relief when a person's quality of life is low

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Pros and Cons

PROS Frees up medical funds to help other people It is another case of freedom of choice

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Pros and Cons

PROS The right to life includes the right to die. Death is the opposite of life, but the process of dying is part of life.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/infavour/infavour_1.shtml

Pros and Cons

CONS Euthanasia devalues human life Euthanasia can become a means of health care cost containment Doctors should not be involved in directly causing death
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Pros and Cons

CONS Mercy killing is morally incorrect and should be forbidden by law. Is a homicide Murdering another human cannot be rationalized under any circumstances
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Catholic Church's Perspective

Against Euthanasia Believe that life is a gift from God We are all made in God's image

Morally wrong o "Thou shall not kill"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/euthanasia_1.shtml#h2

Catholic Church's Perspective

The Catholic Church does not believe that people have a right to die. Humans are free, but they cannot take their own lives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/euthanasia_1.shtml#h2

Catholic Church's Perspective

The Catholic Church does believe that it is morally acceptable to refuse extraordinary medical treatment. Suicide is wrong o Assisting suicide is looked at the same way

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/euthanasia_1.shtml#h2

Catholic Church's Perspective

"Nothing and no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a foetus or an embryo, an infant or"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/euthanasia_1.shtml#h2

Catholic Church's Perspective

"an adult, an old person, or one suffering from an incurable disease, or a person who is dying."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/euthanasia_1.shtml#h2

Catholic Church's Perspective

"A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ..."

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Catholic Church's Perspective

"... [he] will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being..."

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Catholic Church's Perspective

"... does not change depending on their circumstances." -- Pope John Paul II, 2004

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