euthanasia

• what does euthanasia mean ?

  • painless killing of a person
• active euthanasia

  • when active steps are taken to end someone’s life e.g. lethal injection
• passive euthanasia

  • doctors stop providing treatment e.g. turning off a life support machine
• voluntary euthanasia

  • when a person asks a doctor to end their own life
• involuntary euthanasia

  • when a person is able to provide consent but does not
• non voluntary euthanasia 


  • when the person is too ill to request to die
• arguments for euthanasia

  • if it is the most loving and compassionate thing to do
  • ” love your neighbour“
  • “ blessed are the merciful”
  • god has given people free will so they have the right to decide
• arguments against euthanasia

  • life is sacred so only god has the right to take it away
  • goes against the sanctity of life
  • goes against the commandment “ thou shall not kill”
  • we cannot play god and decide when people die