JANSSEN C. VALDEZ LIEZEL T.

CABANERO RHONALYN GUIYAB VALERIE DUMAPI JESSICA SALARZON HELYN DOMINGO SECHEM MARTIN

From the Greek word thanatus which means EASY OR HAPPY DEATH

granting painless death to a hopelessly ill patient with a noncurable disease.

 400

B. C. - The earliest recorded reference to Euthanasia comes from Hippocrates, the father of medicine. He quoted as saying I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel 673 England prohibits suicide.

 1647

the Providence Plantations (Rhode Island) declared that if an individual committed suicide his/her possessions would become the property of the King of England. 1800s Laws of Connecticut essentially states that any person who aids another individual in committing suicide is guilty of murder if the advisee actually goes through with suicide.

 1828

The earliest American statute explicitly to outlaw assisted suicide was enacted in New York.Between 1857 and 1865, a New York commission drafted a criminal code that prohibited aiding suicide and, specifically, furnishing another person with any deadly weapon or poisonous drug, knowing that such person tends to use such weapon or drug in taking his own life. 1850 The California legislature adopted the English common law, under which assisting suicide was a crime.

 1939

In Nazi GermanyHitler ordered widespread mercy killing of the sick and disabled. 1935 The Euthanasia Society of England was formed to promote euthanasia. 1995 Australia's Northern Territory approved the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act . It went into effect in 1996 and was overturned by the Australian Parliament in 1997.

 1994

- the Oregon Death with Dignity Act was passed, which legalized assisted suicides. Other states such as California, Michigan, Maine, Hawaii, Arizona, and Vermont have tried to pass similar bills. All attempts have been unsuccessful. Euthanasia is legalized in Belgium

2002
2005

Netherlands set to give the go-ahead to child euthanasia.

Euthanasia would not only be for people who are terminally ill

By deciding who is terminally ill, we are deciding who has dignity. Is it really our place to decide this?

Euthanasia will become non-voluntary

If Euthanasia becomes a common practice people might begin to think that as a terminally ill patient they are a burden to society and therefore must choose Euthanasia.

Euthanasia is a rejection of the importance and value of human life

No one is being saved with Euthanasia life is only taken. Almost all societies disagree with Euthanasia should be a sign that it is not moral.

Euthanasia is not the only way to relieve excruciating pain

Euthanasia is too harsh a measure to rid yourself of any pain

Active:

an active intervention to end life.

- roughly, involves killing a patient

E.g., administering a fatal dose of morphine to a terminally ill cancer patient This is often what people have in mind when they simply speak of euthanasia Be careful to distinguish killing from murdering (wrongful killing) not all killings are murders

Passive: - deliberately withholding treatment that help a patient live longer - roughly, involves letting a patient die

E.g., failing to revive a patient who has signed a DNR order

Non-voluntary - ending the life of a patient who is not capable of giving permission - patient cannot decide from themselves. Examples: children, comatose patients, or individuals not mentally competent

Voluntary : - performed following a request from a patient - patient request treatment to be stopped.
Examples: chemotherapy or dialysis.

Doctor

assisted suicide:
- a doctor

prescribes a lethal drug which is self administered by the patient

Involuntary: - ending life against a patients will. - patient refused a life sustaining treatment. Examples: Drugs are too costly, limited supply of organs. About 13,000 patients are on waiting list in the US.

-means bad death - refers to the undue prolongation of life and delay of the occurrence of natural death which in effect lengthens the suffering of the person. Examples: Technologies such as a implantable cardioverter defibrillator, artificial ventilation, ventricular assist devices, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation can extend the dying process.

 Against

the Natural Law - Any useless attempt to impede the occurrence of death in its given moment inflict violence on nature resulting to the undue suffering and painful dying of the dying thereby contravening the natural law and the dictates of reason

 An

insult to the sovereign Master of Life and Death Contrary to human dignity
To sum up its morality, just as EUTHANASIA is immoral because of its method oh hastening ones death, so also is DYSTHANASIA because of its method of prolonging a persons death.

is the irreversible end of all brain activity (including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life) due to total necrosis of the cerebral neurons following loss of brain oxygenation.

First introduced in a 1968 report authored by a special

committee of the Harvard Medical School

Adopted in 1980, with modifications, by the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical Research, as a recommendation for state legislatures and courts

The "brain death" standard was also employed in the

model legislation known as the Uniform Determination of

Death Act, which has been enacted by a large number of jurisdictions and the standard has been endorsed by the influential American Bar Association.

 Cerebrum

Controls memory, consciousness, and higher mental functioning Controls various muscle functions

Cerebellum

Brain

stem consisting of the midbrain, pons, and medulla, which extends downwards to become the spinal cord

Controls respiration and various basic reflexes (e.g., swallow and gag)

Unreceptivity and unresponsiveness

No movements or breathing
No reflexes Flat EEG of confirmatory value

NORMAL

CEREBRAL ANOREXIA

NORMAL

CEREBRAL HEMMORHAGE

NORMAL

TRAUMA

NORMAL

MENINGITIS

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