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RE Unit 3 Topic 2
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- 1EuthanasiaMercy killing. It’s helping someone to die, who is suffering from a terminal illness, or whose quality of life is less than they can bear, usually because of disease.
- 2Life support machinesA machine that keeps the patient alive by making their lungs breathe, monitoring their heart and feeding them intravenously.
- 3HospiceThey are homes for the dying, people may go there until they die. On average, people stay there for 2 weeks. They were originally places for travellers, the sick and the needy to stay. They were set up by christians. Overtime, they have specialised in looking after people who are dying. The basic idea is that if dying people are cared for, covering all the aspects of their being, they won’t wish for euthanasia.
- 4Life after death / afterlifeIt is a fundamental belief in most religions. What form life after death takes is different in each religion and sometimes there is a difference of belief between members of the same religion. Some people without a religious belief also believe in life after death while others believe that there is no sort of existence after death.
- 5Sanctity of lifeAll life's special :
Life is sacred because God created it - Christianity
Because it is the way we achieve enlightenment - Hinduism
Worst crime punishable by death - toughest punishments
Deserves to be protected and cherished. - 6Quality of lifeDescription of how good someone’s life is:
How comfortable they feel
How easy it is for them to live
How much money and possessions they’ve got
Medical situation
We should treat others as we wish to be treated. - 7RetirementPeople over 65, who get state pension and other benefits because of their age.
- 8Active euthanasiaWhen the dying person is killed to put them out of their suffering - their illness doesn’t kill them.
- 9Passive euthanasiaWhen the dying person is allowed to die through taking away the medical support they have - the illness is allowed to kill them.
- 10PurgatoryThis is a place where some people who have sinned are purified in a 'cleansing fire', after which they are accepted into Heaven. This is taught in the Roman Catholic Church, most Christian churches don’t accept the idea, but instead that once judgment happens, people will
- 11ReincarnationThe religious belief that existence is a cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth, and that the soul survives physical death and is reborn in a new body.
- 12ResurrectionThe Christian belief that Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after the crucifixion. The rising from the dead of believers on the Last Day in a new, or risen, life.
- 13RebirthThe belief that some part of a person (perhaps their energy) passes into a new life form after death.
- 14EnlightenmentThe realisation of the truth about life. In Buddhism, it releases a person from the cycle of rebirth.
- 15Deja vuThe experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before.
- 16NDENear Death Experience - people claim to sense that they have experienced leaving their bodies and seeing something beyond life.
- 17Free WillThe idea that humans are free to make their own moral choices.
- 18HeavenA physical place, or a state of mind, associated with God and the afterlife.
- 19HellA place of torment and punishment for those who have done wrong.
- 20PrayerCommunicating with God. A means of developing a personal relationship with God.
- 21Roman CatholicA group of Christians who accept the Pope in Rome as their leader.
- 22SoulThe spiritual part of a human being. It’s believed by many that the soul is eternal.
- 23Ten CommandmentsThe list of rules, revealed by God to Moses, found in the Old Testament books of Exodus and Deuteronomy.
- 24Assisted suicideDeliberately assisting or encouraging another person to take their own life.
- 25Advanced directive/ advanced decisionA statement explaining what medical treatment the individual would not want in the future, should they lack the capacity to make the decision for themselves at the time.
- 26AtheistA person who doesn’t believe in the existence of a god or gods.
- 27Non-voluntary / involuntary euthanasiaWhen someone decides that it would be in a person’s best interest if their life was ended
- 28Voluntary euthanasiaWhen a person asks for their own life to be ended.
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