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Flashcards by charlie.c1998, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by charlie.c1998
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| Question | Answer |
| Active Euthanasia | the ending of life by a deliberate action |
| Ageism | Prejudice and Discrimination due to someones age |
| Agnostic | A person who believes it is not possible to be sure if God exists |
| Apathy | A person who has no interest in doing anything |
| Bereaved | People who have suffered the loss of a loved one |
| Care Home | A home for the elderly who are ill or need specialist medical treatment |
| Corporate responsibility | a community or society that takes responsibility for the people within it. |
| Day of resurrection | The day the dead will return to life |
| Euthanasia | Inducing a painless death by agreement and with compassion |
| Generation Gap | The difference in views between young people and their parents |
| Hippocratic Oath | The oath doctors take before practicing as a doctor |
| Involuntary euthanasia | When someones life is taken without their consent because it is felt that to keep them alive is making them suffer. |
| ASBO | An order issued by a magistrate to stop a person being in a certain place at certain times |
| Capital punishment | The form of punishment where a prisoner is put to death for their crimes. The death penalty |
| Crime against the person | Murder, assault. Crimes directly against the person. |
| Crime against property | Damaging items that belong to others. Vandalism, theft |
| Crime against the state | An offence aimed at damaging government e.g. treason, terrorism. |
| Ethnic Cleansing | Killing a certain group or race from a region or country |
| Excessive salary | A 'fat cat' who earns large amounts of money plus bonus |
| Exploitation | Poor people paid low wages so the employer can make more money |
| Golden rule | 'Love your neighbour as yourself' |
| Housing Benefits | A state benefit which the poor receive to help pay some or all of their rent. |
| Indolence | A deliberate choice to be lazy |
| Relative morality | What is right or wrong depends on particular circumstances |
| Absolute morality | what is right or wrong applies to all situations |
| Fertility treatment | A medical procedure to give an infertile couple the opportunity to have a child. |
| IVF | Test tube contraception to make a woman pregnant |
| Human genetic engineering | Changing the genetics of a person to change their appearance |
| Designer Babies | babies who's gender of characteristics was chosen by parents before birth |
| Saviour sibling | a person who is born to be genetically compatible with their brother or sister to help them with an illness. |
| Viable | when the foetus can survive outside the womb |
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