Background

• peter singer


  sanctity of life is an outdated concept and we should focus on the quality of life
• grisez and boyle


  when someone is bodily alive they remain a person
• maguire


  there isn't a difference in playing God between preserving a life and ending it
• hippocrates


  hippocratic oath
• mill


  harm principles- if the action only involves those consenting to participate then society has no right to intervene
• acts and ommisions doctrine

  there is a moral difference between carrying out an action and omitting to carry out an action

  killing vs letting die

  • support from clough - thou shalt not kill but needst not strive officiously to keep alive
  • against - stopping treatment is a deliberate act
• sanctity of life quotations

  god created man in his own image - genesis 1:27

  don't you know that you are gods temple and that gods spirity lives in you - 1 corinthians 3:16

  do not commit murder - exodus 20:13