Euthanaia arguments and more
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 narrow interpretation of Euthanasia | killing a patient is always morally wrong |
| broad interpretation of Euthanasia | acts of allowing patients to die or passive Euthanasia is not always morally wrong |
| voluntary Euthanasia | decisions about death wherein a competent adult patient request or gives informed consent about their treatment or request to die |
| informed consent | patients can understand what they agree to and voluntarily choose it |
| non voluntary Euthanasia decisions | decisions about death in cases where the decision is not made by the person who is to die , the patient may not be competent to give informed consent |
| coma patients | may need to have an non voluntary decision made for them |
| All examples of Euthanasia in the narrow interpretation | Voluntary Euthanasia, non voluntary Euthanasia, voluntarily allowing to die, non voluntarily allowing to die |
| voluntary Euthanasia and non voluntary Euthanasia | are consided immoral under the narrow interpretation of Euthanasia |
| Examples of Euthanasia under the broad interpretation | Voluntary actice euthanasia,nonvoluntary acitce euthanasia, voluntary passive euthanasia, nonboluntary passive euthanasia |
| assisted suicide | doctors assist terminally ill patient in taking their own life by prescribing a lethal dose of drugs |
| Dr. Jack Kevorkian | In 1994 he was found innocent of assisting the suicide of a 30 year old man with ALS. Critics say the patients were depressed and not competent to make decision on life. Slippery slope because doctors might start using their won judgement to decide who lives or dies 1998 Found Guilty of 2nd degree murder for videoed lethal injection death paroled in 2007 and working for legislation on making PAS legal |
| living will | An advance directive that specifies an individual's end-of-life wishes |
| Oregon with Dignity act | • Physicians write prescriptions for lethal doses of medication after an adequate waiting period • Patient must be 18 or older with an incurable, irreversible terminal illness and life expectancy of less than 6 months 1997 |
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