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1assisted suicide is a form of euthanasia where a termnianlly ill person asks a friend or family memeber to help them commit suicide e.g. getting them drugs
- ATrue
- BFalse
2this type of euthanasia occurs where a person is allowed to die by withdrawing medical treatment- for example turning off a llife support system. is it a or b?
- Apassive euthanasia
- Bactive euthanasia
- Apassive euthanasia
3in England it is currently legal to commit voluntary euthanasia....
- ATrue
- BFalse
4only passive euthanasisa is legal in the uk. the homocide act of 1957 and the suicide act of 1972 ruled that assisted euthanasia is illegal .
- ATrue
- BFalse
5an arguement for legalising ethanasia is personal autonomy- a person shoudl e able to make important decisions concerning their own lives.
- ATrue
- BFalse
6an argument against legalising euthaniasia is- it would be better to use the limited nhs budget to spend money on treating younger patients who are more liekly to recover.
- ATrue
- BFalse
7if a person is dying very slowly, this can put great pressure on their families and can affect them emotionally and psychologically. allowing the patient to die would reduce such suffering.
- Athis is an argument for legalizing euthanasia
- Bthis is an argument against legalizing euthanasia
8the medicla ehtic guidelines for doctors and the famous Hippocratic oath, state that doctors have a duty never to harm a patient and to treat them to the best of their ability.
- Athis is an argument for legalizing eithanasia
- Bthis is an argument against legalizing euthanasia
9many elderly and terminally ill people have no family to care for them and there are not enough places in hospices.continued medical treatment can be costly.
- Athis is a reason for legalizing euthanasia
- Bthis is a reason for not legalizing euthanasia
10many elderly and terminally ill people have no family to care for them and there are not enough places in hospices.continued medical treatment can be costly.
- Athis is a reason for legalizing euthanasia
- Bthis is a reason for not legalizing euthanasia
11many elderly and terminally ill people have no family to care for them and there are not enough places in hospices.continued medical treatment can be costly.
- Athis is a reason for legalizing euthanasia
- Bthis is a reason for not legalizing euthanasia
12if we allow euthanasia then could other controversial issues follow? this is called the slippery slope.
- ATrue
- BFalse
13a hospice is a place where terminally ill patients go to get better.
- ATrue
- BFalse
14this is care which gives the extremes of suffering and provide people a place to stay for many years.
- ATrue
- BFalse
15care which takes away the extremes of suffering and allows people to live out their last days in peace and dignity.
- ATrue
- BFalse
16an argument against euthanasia is god gave humans dominion over all creation so they have responsibility to use gods gifts to the full, including the gift of life
- ATrue
- BFalse
17a christian argument in favor of euthanasia is Christians are required to love one another, by looking after people when they are ill rather than helping them to die.
- ATrue
- BFalse
18in the old testament, Abimelech asks his Armour bearer to kill him after Abimemlech was severely wounded in battle. if Abimelech is bale to do this, then so should Christians. this is an argument in favor of euthanasia.
- ATrue
- BFalse
19if you translate the ten commandments as some people do, it says do not murder rather than do not kill. as euthanasia is killing but without intending to cause harm, it is very different fro murder. this is an argument in favor of euthanasia
- ATrue
- BFalse
20in 1995 who confirmed the roman catholic position that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of god since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
- Agod
- Bjesus
- Cpope John Paul
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