Explain the moral issues surrounding Euthanisa
a) Explain the moral issues surrounding Euthanasia (25)
Euthanasia is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
Euthanasia has a lot of moral issues. Some of these may be: sanctity of life which is the idea that life is sacred and special and God created humans in his image, so only he can give or take life, individualism which is if you are able to make decisions by yourself and do things by yourself and quality of life which is how ‘good’ your life is.
Christians view all human lives as symmetrically valuable, and that life is the same in all the approaches. They argue that the dignity and the value of human lives is a way that each human life is symmetrically valuable. This is not the case to euthanasia since it lays emphasis on the mobility, success achievements and disregarding the importance of how priceless the life of human being is. Utilitarianism is used to solve the ethical problems that physician assisted suicide presents. So this means it is our moral duty to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. This theory stresses that life must be measured on a scale to determine its importance and death must be defined all these issues presented by euthanasia are not in any way influenced with morality.
A criticism of active euthanasia is that there is much exclusion to the forbiddance against killing. A good example is the cases of the self defense, capital punishment and war.
Because of this, active euthanasia is considered as killing. Active euthanasia will promote to abuses and gradually euthanizing people against their personal choice. Some people argue that the societies will get familiar to the idea of terminating the life of others to solve social problems. A criticism of this argument is that abuses associated with euthanasia can be minimized by very strict rules set out by the government. The major issue must be
Euthanasia is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
Euthanasia has a lot of moral issues. Some of these may be: sanctity of life which is the idea that life is sacred and special and God created humans in his image, so only he can give or take life, individualism which is if you are able to make decisions by yourself and do things by yourself and quality of life which is how ‘good’ your life is.
Christians view all human lives as symmetrically valuable, and that life is the same in all the approaches. They argue that the dignity and the value of human lives is a way that each human life is symmetrically valuable. This is not the case to euthanasia since it lays emphasis on the mobility, success achievements and disregarding the importance of how priceless the life of human being is. Utilitarianism is used to solve the ethical problems that physician assisted suicide presents. So this means it is our moral duty to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. This theory stresses that life must be measured on a scale to determine its importance and death must be defined all these issues presented by euthanasia are not in any way influenced with morality.
A criticism of active euthanasia is that there is much exclusion to the forbiddance against killing. A good example is the cases of the self defense, capital punishment and war.
Because of this, active euthanasia is considered as killing. Active euthanasia will promote to abuses and gradually euthanizing people against their personal choice. Some people argue that the societies will get familiar to the idea of terminating the life of others to solve social problems. A criticism of this argument is that abuses associated with euthanasia can be minimized by very strict rules set out by the government. The major issue must be