THE ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF EUTHANASIA Megan Best Dr Megan Best is a bioethicist and palliative care doctor who is employed by Hope Healthcare‚ a Christian healthcare provider in Sydney. Her clinical focus is the development of a Palliative Care Day Clinic which aims to support terminally ill patients with advanced disease who wish to remain living at home. This paper was originally presented at the Christian perspectives on the end of life CASE Conference in March 2010‚ and is an extended version
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population in the United States there is still a large population of people with religious arguments against capital punishment‚ catholic society by the nature of humanity and evolution has realized that capital punishment is less and less a moral and ethical punishment for capital crimes such as murder. In examining the history of the Catholic Church and the Catholic Church’s moral teachings in regards to the death penalty
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tell you that I am Catholic‚ what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Perhaps you think of rosaries‚ Latin Masses and gothic style cathedrals. "No‚ I’m not Roman Catholic." You’re probably confused; aren’t Catholic and Roman Catholic the same thing? "No. I’m Byzantine Catholic." Now what do you picture? I’m willing to bet that you aren’t picturing anything‚ you’re probably too busy typing “Byzantine Catholic” into Google‚ and you wouldn’t be alone. The Catholic Church is made up of 24
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Euthanasia has been a controversial topic of discussion in the last decades‚ since‚ dealing it‚ we have to take into account the so-called right to life‚ which appears in many different declarations of human rights (Right to life‚ 2010) and which seems‚ or could seem‚ inherent to our species. By euthanasia we can understand “the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma” (Oxford dictionaries‚ 2010). Of course‚ it may be more complicated
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in certain defined circumstances’. When euthanasia was considered by a House of Lords Select Committee in 1993-4‚ it said this: ... society’s
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CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING * is a body of doctrine developed by the Catholic Church on matters of poverty and wealth‚ economics‚ social organization and the role of the state. Its foundations are widely considered to have been laid by Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical letter Rerum Novarum‚ which advocated economic Distributism and condemned both Capitalism and Socialism‚ although its roots can be traced to the writings of Catholic thinkers such as St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo‚ and
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A question that concerns the majority of humans for decades is whether there is a right in someone else’s life. There have been through the ages‚ many arguments and counter arguments about issues like death penalty and euthanasia and surely this matter differs each time depending on the point of view. You could claim your opinion for or against when being outside an unpleasant situation but when it comes to a closer person or even yourself‚ things might change. That is why we have to look deeper
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terminally ill patients should be able to end their life early because of unbearable pain is becoming widely debated. The Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines euthanasia as “the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy” (“Euthanasia”)‚ and comes from the Greek word meaning “good death” (Humphry). The practice is currently legal in Belgium‚ Canada‚ Luxembourg‚ the Netherlands‚ and the states of
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Name: Stephanie Manriquez Day/Period: April 20‚ 14 Catholic Social Teaching Review Worksheet Chapter Eight—Catholic Social Justice: Justice and Peace Directions: As you are reading through the chapter‚ fill in the missing information. Pages 174-196—Christians and Peace 1. Pope Paul VI once wrote‚ “If you want peace‚ work for justice”. 2. In The Challenge of Peacemaking‚ the American bishops discussed a _spiritual of peacemaking‚ which begins in the individual’s mind and heart
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Euthanasia: The Argument of the Living “Man is the only creature who knows that he will die.” –Voltaire An honorable death has been sought by many cultures and groups throughout time. Euthanasia comes from the Greek words “Eu” (good) and “thánatos” (death). Physician-Assisted Suicide is a “situation when the physician provides the means of death for a gravely ill patient but the patient takes the final step” (dictionary.com). This is very similar to Euthanasia which is also called mercy killing
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