Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Suicide and Euthanasia
- Suicide
- The deliberate
ending of your
own life
- Why?
- Depression
- Recent loss or break
up of close relationship
- Heavy use or
dependency of
alcohol/drugs
- Severe pain or illness
- Euthanasia
- Assisted suicide
- It is illegal in the UK but
is legal in the
Netherlands (in certain
circumstances)
- Quotes
- For
- "Agape"
- "Treat others how you
want to be treated"
- Against
- "Thou shall not murder"
(Ten Commandments)
- "God created man in
his own image"
- "Your body is a temple
of the Holy Spirit"
- "There is a time for
everything...a time to be
born, a time to die"
- The 4 types of Euthanasia
- VOLUNTARY - the person
concerned asks someone
else to helm them die
- INVOLUNTARY - carried out
without the patient's consent
because they are unable to
decide themselves (e.g. turning
off a life support machine for
someone in a coma)
- ACTIVE - when
action is taken
to bring life to an
end
- PASSIVE - when a decision is made to
stop giving someone medication/treatment
which will result in them dying
- Sanctity of Life
- All life is special and sacred
- Only God has the
right to give and
take life
- Therefore Suicide and
Euthanasia goes against the
Sanctity of life
- Christian Views
- Roman Catholic
- It is WRONG because they
believe that only God can
end life. It is a SIN
- Drugs to relieve
pain that may
shorten a patient's
life is acceptable
- Church of England
- It is WRONG
- However some think
that doctors should not
keep patients alive if
they have no quality of
life left
- Christians are taught
to show compassion
towards anyone who
commits suicide
- Overall Christian View
- Suicide and Euthanasia
are wrong and should
not happen!
- Muslim View
- Suicide and Euthanasia are
forbidden as no one has the right
to choose when to die
- "Destroy not yourself. Surely
Allah is ever merciful to you."
- Alternatives
- A hospice is a place where
terminally ill people are
cared for until they die
- Christians believe that
hospices are good
alternatives to euthanasia
as they allow the person to
die in comfort and with
dignity
- An alternative to suicide is
counselling and many
Christians volunteer at
organisations that offer help