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Voluntary Euthanasia and Involuntary Euthanasia

Voluntary Euthanasia and Involuntary Euthanasia. VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA. INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA. PASSIVE EUTHANASIA. ACTIVE EUTHANASIA. Euthanasia is performed because the patient has asked for it. e.g. a cancer patient who asks for a drug to quicken their death. VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA.

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Voluntary Euthanasia and Involuntary Euthanasia

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  1. Voluntary Euthanasia and Involuntary Euthanasia

  2. VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA PASSIVE EUTHANASIA ACTIVE EUTHANASIA

  3. Euthanasia is performed because the patient has asked for it. e.g. a cancer patient who asks for a drug to quicken their death VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA Euthanasia is performed without the dying person being told.e.g. a coma patient. INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA PASSIVE EUTHANASIA Doctors give a painkilling drug but do nothing to save the patient. ACTIVE EUTHANASIA Doctors give the patient pain killing drugs knowing that the drug will also kill the patient.

  4. Voluntary Euthanasia • Voluntary euthanasia is where a person has made a conscious decision to end their life. • It can be during an illness when there is no hope of recovery. • You might make the decision while well, that in the event of you becoming ill with no chance of recovery you would prefer your death to be hastened by the help of someone.

  5. Voluntary Euthanasia The person wants to die and says so. This includes cases of: • asking for help with dying • refusing burdensome medical treatment

  6. asking for medical treatment to be stopped, or life support machines to be switched off • refusing to eat • simply deciding to die

  7. Practical reasons • Terminally ill – better than waiting for possible long and painful death • Quality of life might be going – sportsperson left severely handicapped in wheelchair or bed • Deterioration of condition

  8. Physical pain • Mental /mental loss leading possibly to PVS (Persistent Vegetative State) • Burden on family for care • Don’t want to give family the responsibility of ending life – give it to doctors

  9. Involuntary (Non-voluntary) Euthanasia • This is where the choice to end your life is not made by you but by others. • Doctors would get relatives’ permission to carry out euthanasia. • However, relatives’ sometimes refuse and the doctor’s take it to the courts.

  10. When might involuntary euthanasia be an option? • Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) with no predicted hope of recovery. • Person’s life is judged to be of such poor quality it is not worth living. • Possibly result of illness or injury.

  11. Child born with severe mental/ physical deformity which will cause severe pain/suffering. • Terminally ill person who is suffering greatly. • the person is too young (eg a very young baby). • the person is senile.

  12. Limited resources for NHS. Why use precious resources on someone with no hope instead of where there might be hope of recovery • unable to communicate wishes to others. • the person is mentally retarded to a very severe extent

  13. Involuntary (Non-voluntary) Euthanasia The person cannot make a decision or cannot make their wishes known. This includes cases where: • the person is in a coma

  14. the person is severely brain damaged • the person is mentally disturbed in such a way that they should be protected from themselves

  15. Homework • Come up with 3 possible arguments for and against Euthanasia. • Remembering to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary!!!

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