Religious Studies 1022A/B Lecture 3: Euthanasia- Good Killing

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1022A/B
• Professor: Jonathan Marsh

Document Summary

Through- experience: ordinarily, death is regarded as a very big problem, but some people, under certain circumstances, death is regarded as a solutions. Six- types of euthanasia: voluntary, non-voluntary, not in accordance to will, unable to give consent for killing. Involuntary: not in accordance to will, don"t want to be killed, active, directly causing death. Landmark cases: terri schiavo, pvs - permanent brain damage, husband wanted her to die but parents said live, karen ann quinlan, consuming alcohol and tranquiller, pvs. Case 1 and 3- are generally regarded as cases of non-voluntary (passive) euthanasia, because they, as. Pvs victims, were unable to choose whether they wanted to live or die* Roman catholic perspective: euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of god, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person, principle of double effect. Performing a bad action to bring a good effect is never permissible- anti-