EUTHANASIA

Garcelle Allen, Renzo Chunga, Diana Quispe & Shannon Rogers

 WHAT IS EUTHANASIA?
 "The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and
painful disease or in an irreversible coma."
also referred to as doctor assisted suicide and medical killing.

 Between 0.3% and 4.6% of all deaths are euthanasia's

in jurisdictions where they are legal
 OUR CLAIM
Euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide can have both a
positive and negative impact on the patient, their family, and
the doctor.
POSITIVES OF EUTHANASIA
 1ST POSITIVE
• LEGALIZING EUTHANASIA WOULD HELP ALLEVIATE SUFFERING OF
TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS
• IT WOULD BE INHUMANE AND UNFAIR TO MAKE THEM ENDURE THE
UNBEARABLE PAIN
• IN A STUDY OF UNBEARABLE SUFFERING AND REQUESTS FOR
EUTHANASIA IN END-OF-LIFE CANCER PATIENTS IN PRIMARY CARE BY
DR. RUIJS, 88% OF PATIENTS IN THE STUDY SUFFERED UNBEARABLE
SYMPTOMS, SHOWING THAT MOST PATIENTS UNDERGO EUTHANASIA
BECAUSE OF THE PAIN.
• TAKING THIS OPTION AWAY FROM PATIENTS WOULD LEAVE MANY IN
THE HOSPITAL TO LIVE MISERABLY AND DIE SLOWLY 
 2ND POSITIVE
• EUTHANASIA PROVIDES A CHOICE TO ALL PEOPLE, INCLUDING
THOSE WHO ARE NOT CURRENTLY ELIGIBLE TO BE EUTHANIZED
• IT RELIEVES PEOPLE FROM THE FEAR OF A LONG, PAINFUL
DEATH, FOR THEY KNOW THAT THEY CAN CHOOSE TO BE
EUTHANIZED
• YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE YOUR OWN DECISION
• PATIENTS AREN'T CHOOSING TO DIE THEY'RE CHOOSING HOW
THEY DIE AND SEE IT AS DYING WITH DIGNITY
NEGATIVES OF EUTHANASIA
 1ST NEGATIVE
• ALL DOCTORS ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH WHICH ENTAILS
THAT THEY DO NO HARM, PROVIDE CARE FOR THE SICK AND NOT PLAY GOD.
• EUTHANASIA CONTRADICTS THE WHOLE IDEA OF DOCTORS PROMOTING/SAVING
LIVES.
• MANY DOCTORS DON’T HAVE THE HEART TO KNOWINGLY LET A PATIENT TAKE
THEIR LIFE
• THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ORGANIZED 152,000 MEDICAL
PROFESSIONALS, IN 2017, WHO STOOD AGAINST THE LEGALIZATION OF
PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE AND THEY RELEASED THIS OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
“THE PRACTICE OF WHICH RAISES ETHICAL, CLINICAL, AND OTHER CONCERNS.
CONTROL OVER THE MANNER AND TIMING OF A PERSON’S DEATH HAS NOT BEEN
AND SHOULD NOT BE A GOAL OF MEDICINE,” THE GROUP CONCLUDED.
 2ND NEGATIVE
•“Patients may be influenced or not in the right state of mind
•Terminally ill patients tend to suffer from depression --> increase their
willingness to die
•Psychological testing should be done to consider whether the individual is ready
to make this decision 
•Cases have been reported where the family has influenced their decision in return
for personal gain (life insurance policy or will)
•About 900 people annually are administered lethal substances without having
given explicit consent, and in one jurisdiction, almost 50% of cases of euthanasia
are not reported.
 CONCLUSIONS

POSITIVES NEGATIVES
Relieves the suffering of Contradicts the Hippocratic
terminally ill patients Oath

Provides a choice to those Patients could possibly not be

who are not eligible to be in the right state of mind or be
euthanized  swayed and make the wrong
choice when deciding
QUALIFY
 SOURCES
https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/assisted-suicide-human-right-or-homicide 
https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/us/physician-assisted-suicide-fast-facts/index.html 
http://theconversation.com/in-places-where-its-legal-how-many-people-are-ending-their-lives-using-
euthanasia-73755https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/182951.php
https://euthanasia.procon.org/ 
https://www.mdedge.com/clinicalneurologynews/article/154404/business-medicine/physician-assiste
d-suicide-update
 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070710/
https://www.sanjuan.edu/cms/lib/CA01902727/Centricity/Domain/4026/Mercy%20Killing%20Articl
es.pdf
 
https://euthanasia.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000126
https://world.wng.org/content/us_doctors_take_official_stance_against_euthanasia 
 EUTHANASIA
Garcelle Allen, Renzo Chunga, Diana Quispe & Shannon Rogers