Voluntary Euthansia

ACTIVE V.S PASSIVE

ACTIVE

• taking specific steps to cause the patient's death

PASSIVE

• withdrawing medical treatment with the deliberate intention of causing the patient's death.

• injecting the patient with poison

EXIT INTERNATIONAL

"A PEACEFUL DEATH IS EVERYONE'S RIGHT"

• "Do not Resuscitate Order"

• Euthanasia is generally classified as either "active" or "passive", and as either "voluntary" or "involuntary". Similar to euthanasia is "assisted suicide".

WORK CITED

Kuhse, Helga, and Peter Singer. Bioethics: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2006. Print.

Young, Robert. "Voluntary Euthanasia." (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). N.p., 2010. Web. 18 June 2012. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/euthanasia-voluntary/>.

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TYPES OF EUTHANASIA

WHAT IS EUTHANASIA?

• the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit. (The key word is "intentional". If death is not intended, it is not an act of euthanasia

Voluntary Euthanasia & Medically Assisted Suicide

• Incurable illness, loss of ones faculties and interminable pain and suffering are basis
• "The Note"

• some see it as cowardly and wrong

• some see it as an expression of freedom as human beings

THE Euthanasia DEBATE...

• What the legitimate conditions under which a person can kill another? ("consenting adult killing")
• What is the meaning and limits of self-determination?
• Should medicine be prepared to make its skill available to individuals to help them achieve their private vision of the good life?

ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR

• Voluntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed has requested to be killed.
• Non-voluntary: When the person who is killed made no request and gave no consent.
• Involuntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed made an expressed wish to the contrary.
• Assisted suicide: Someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they will be used for this purpose. When it is a doctor who helps another person to kill themselves it is called "physician assisted suicide."
• Euthanasia By Action: Intentionally causing a person's death by performing an action such as by giving a lethal injection.
• Euthanasia By Omission: Intentionally causing death by not providing necessary and ordinary (usual and customary) care or food and water.

• Moral individual self-determination and well-being
• Moral irrelevance of the difference between killing and allowing to die
• convincing enough evidence to show likely harmful consequences
• compatibility of euthanasia and medical practice

Voluntary Euthanasia

BY: Kirby Baker

BIOETHICS 324

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