EUTHANASIA

Sara Tabares
Jaime Andrés Pardo
 VOCABULARY
- Suffering
- Physicians
- Disease
- Orphan diseases
- End stage terminal diseases
 INTRODUCTION
- Efthanasia “good to die”
- Euthanasia (the process of dying with dignity in your
own terms)is one of the most used procedures in our
current society to end the life of patients with end-
stage terminal diseases
- end the suffering of these patients and prevent any
further worthless pain
 DEFINITIONS
- “The descent intentionally caused by acts or
omissions that are intended to end a life of an
individual or sick"
- “The right of a person to decide his manner and
moment of death"
 HISTORY
- Euthanasia was practiced in Ancient Greece and Rome.
- Was supported by Socrates, Plato and Seneca the
Elder in the ancient world.

 "I will not prescribe a deadly drug to please someone, nor

give advice that may cause his death“ Hippocrates
 TYPES
● The first type of euthanasia is the direct
- Active
- Pasive
● The second type of euthanasia is the
indirect
 ROLE OF THE PHYSICIAN IN EUTHANASIA

- Nowadays the role of the physician is

kind of controversial because in some
countries this procedure is not legal.
- Identifity the patients
- Cannot impose any barriers
- Support
- Give information
 EUTHANASIA INDICATIONS
- Adults with end-stage
terminal diseases
- Adults with refractory,
resistant to treatment
psychological diseases
- Children with orphan
diseases.
 ETHICAL DILEMMA
Euthanasia has been managed by
two philosophical currents, made up
of men of science and religion based
on the beliefs and knowledge that
until then their peers, as social
beings, have developed invoking
human dignity, both to defend it and
to reject it.