Euthanasia

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Euthanasia

(Situation +Natural Law)

Joesph Fletcher

"People with children with down syndrome no reason for putting a baby away"

Voluntary = when you say you want to die

Non Voluntary = Cannot volunteer

(illegal) Active- lethal dose to deliberatly kills someone

(legal) Passive- Not treatment = chemo therapy

James Rachels - passive euthanasia is actaully worse as its cruel curl process of dying maybe long and drawn out eg. stop eating

Legal argument - acts and omniscients --> active=act action that causes death, omnscients= not doing something to help refraining frm carry.

Argument of proportionality

weigh up illness with deatha nd suffering-- is suffereing so bad that death makes it better?

Personhood

What separtes a human being from a perosn can be a human but not a person eg in PVS (persistant vegative state)

If your in a coma are you still a perosn

PVS=human not person

Ginserz and Boyle- a person in PVS have not lost what makes them a person humanity and perosn are one.

Sanity of Life

all of life is sacred

made in God's image divinity

Specialness given to humanity eg. Adam could name all the aniamsl

Humans with staurtship