Euthanasia

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Euthanasia

• Starter Look at the picture on your desks,
  describe in full sentences what you think is
  happening in this picture and why.
• Extension starter Write your own learning
  objectives.

• Learning Objectives

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Euthanasia Definition

• Euthanasia is the word used when someone helps
  another person to die, usually because they are
  terminally ill (there is no hope of recovery)

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Types of Euthanasia

• Passive - Ending someones life by withholding
  essential life-giving care.
• Active - Acting to end someones life, eg, by
  giving a lethal injection.
• Voluntary - Ending life painlessly when someone
  in great pain asks for death.
• Involuntary - Ending someones life painlessly
  when they are unable to ask, but you have good
  reason for thinking they would want you to do so.

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What type of Euthanasia are the following?

• 1) A woman who is terminally ill and unable to
  communicate is being nursed at home by her
  husband. Her pain is controlled by morphine
  received through a motorised syringe driver. Her
  death came when her husband gave her a massive
  overdose of the drug.

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• 2) A doctor treating an elderly, bed-ridden
  patient at home, leaves powerful sleeping pills
  by the bed with strict instructions that no more
  than two must be taken at any one time. The
  patient has already told the doctor that she
  wants to die.

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• A badly deformed baby is born and needs immediate
  maximum intensive care to survive. The mother
  also needs urgent medical care, and the doctor
  deliberately deals with her needs first.

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Euthanasia Right or Wrong

• http//www.truetube.co.uk/body-and-health/life--de
  ath/writing-your-own-end

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Thought Triangle
What have I seen?
What do I want to know now?
What have I done?
What have I heard?