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22 Cards in this Set
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Euthanasia means in Greek |
Good death |
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euthanasia is |
Ending a persons life for their own benefit |
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In euthanasia, person performing action is |
someone other than the person who dies i.e. nurse pulling plug |
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assisted suicide is |
the dying person performs the critical action, using means provided by someone else |
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passive euthanasia |
not a kind of killing, but merely a kind of allowing-to-die. Refraining from life-saving treatment, such as CPR |
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active euthanasia |
involves a definite act by someone that causes death; picture a doctor giving a lethal drug. |
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voluntary euthanasia |
chosen by the dying person |
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involuntary euthanasia |
forced on them |
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non-voluntary euthanasia |
performed on someone who cannot express her wishes; it is thus neither against her wishes nor in accord with them |
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Latimer Case |
example of non-voluntary euthanasia, father killed her because her wishes were not known |
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Carter v. Canada the Supreme Court of Canada |
legalize physician-assisted death (PAD) effective as of February 2016. |
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Futility |
used as a solution to a resource allocation problem: it takes money, space, labour, and other resources to keep someone alive in a hospital. At what point should treatment end, allowing the patient to die so those resources can be allocated to someone else? |
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Statistical Uncertainty |
judgements of futility involve predictions about the future, and so are never entirely certain. |
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Mrs. Jones |
Not resuscetating, a case of passive euthanasia |
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John |
Doctors will actively remove respirator with knowledge it will kill-active euthanasia |
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Kantian point of view |
death is ultimate frustration of autonomy: it interferes more than anything else in all our ends. |
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Utilitarian point of view |
death involves the loss of future happiness you would otherwise experience |
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Religious point of view |
life is intrinsically valuable. |
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Arguments in Favour of euthanasia and AS |
respect for autonomy, principle of beneficence, or "individual well-being, |
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Arguments against euthanasia and AS |
right to life, effective pain management options, suicide is legal so no need, incompatible with doctors duty |
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Slippery Slope |
voluntary euthanasia will lead to involuntary euthanasia |
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Moral centre/vitalism |
Preservation of life is the objective for medicine |
