EUTHANASIA

General Paper

Yr11 Dayeon & Wook

What is Euthanasia? The intentional killing by act or

omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit.

There are two kinds of Euthanasia: Euthanasia By Action Euthanasia By Omission

Cause of Euthanasia

Insufferable pain Right to commit suicide People should not be forced to

stay alive

Religious Controversy

Christianity & Roman Catholic: Mostly against Euthanasia Exceptions and Omissions

Christianity requires us torespect every human being.

Refusing aggressive medical treatment is morally acceptable in the Catholic.

Assisting suicide is morally wrong.

Islam Treating Euthanasia as a suicide.

Buddhism Their ideas are not unanimous,

because Buddha didn’t teach about it. Most Buddhist thinkEuthanasia and

suicide are wrong voluntarily. Instead there are Meditation and pain

killing drugs.

Social Controversy Assisted Suicide: A right or a wrong?Name: Matthew Donnelly

Disease: Skin Caner

(conducted research on the using of x-rays)

After: He lost his nose, his left hand, two fingers on

his right hand, and part of his jaw. He became left blind and the pain was

unrelenting. Matthew's brother Harold, killed his brother as

he couldn’t ignore his brother’s pain.

Assisted Suicide: A right or a wrong?Wrong!

Under the law, suicide is not a crime, but assisted suicide is. Therefore, we as a society should keep laws.

Doctors and nurses have to find themselves "pressured" to cooperate in a patient's suicide. For satisfy the desires of a patient wanting to die, it's unjust that others relate deeply with someone’s life.

Right! All persons have a

moral right to choose freely what they will do with their lives as long as they inflict no harm on others.

When such people ask for assistance in exercising their right to die, their wishes should be respected.

Economic : For

- Only rich people can

- Expensive price

- Support Family

Economic : Against

Families’ responsibility

Money < Human life

Political

"slippery slope" effect

legally for only the terminally ill

other people or to be done non-voluntarily

Political

＞Illegal legal

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Political - For

Public re-quire ↑

Effect from other nations

Political - Against

Slippery Slope effect

Complexity / vague limit

Euthanasia Pros and Cons

Pros Cons

• It provides a way to relieve extreme pain

• It provides a way of relief when a person's quality of life is low

• Frees up medical funds to help other people

• It is another case of free-dom of choice

• Only rich people can afford Euthanasia

• Euthanasia devalues human life• Physicians and other medical

care people should not be in-volved in directly causing death

• Families should hospitalize and do their best for the patient

• Euthanasia is a murder• Euthanasia is against Hippo-

cratic oath

SolutionAllow euthanasia with

strict law

Secure SafeKorean Catholic hospital’s case

Do public campaign

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