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1
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What is active euthanasia?

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Directly & deliberately kill someone - lethal dose painkillers

2
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What is passive euthanasia?

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Indirectly killing someone - withholding food and treatment

3
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What is voluntary euthanasia?

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Carried out at request of dead person.

4
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What is non-voluntary euthanasia?

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Dead person unconscious, other person decides - baby

5
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What is palliative care?

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Medical, emotional & spiritual care given to terminally ill person.

6
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What is a living will?

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Says how patient wants to be treatment if become ill.

E.g. DNR - DO NOT RESUSCITATE!

7
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2 pro life arguments

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If palliative care good enough, no need.
Human life is sacred
Against Hippocratic oath

8
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2 pro choice arguments

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Loss of quality of life

Psychological problems - depression

9
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What do Christians say?

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Christ suffered, we do too.
Human life is sacred.
‘Do not kill’

10
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2 bible verses

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Exodus 20:13 - You shall not murder

Leviticus 24:17 - Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death

11
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Law on euthanasia?

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14 years in prison

12
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What is a hospice?

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Gives palliative care for patient & family.

13
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Who and when was the hospice movement set up?

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Cicely Saunders

1967

14
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What is Euthanasia?

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Act of killing someone painlessly to relieve suffering from incurable illness.

15
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What is the law like in different countries?

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In Switzerland it is legal, so people can go there to have it done. If someone helps them in Northern Ireland, they will go to jail.

16
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Give 1 case of euthanasia and trying to change the law, explain.

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Diane Pretty (2002)
Had motor neurone disease, wanted law changed.
Died in May 2002 by choking to death.