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6. Definition of euthanasia

  • term of a terminally ill person's life whilst usually suffering
  • how comfortable life is
  • patients who are not aiming to get better, just provide comfort

7. Definition of passive euthanasia

  • withdrawing or removing treatment that is being used to keep the patient alive
  • lethal injections or drug to actively end a patient's life

8. What is Kantian ethics?

  • greater good for the greater amount of people
  • is something morally right or wrong using a test to decide
  • what a virtuous person would do

9. Characteristics of a virtuous person

  • patience, honesty, integrity, generosity, loyalty
  • impatience, dishonest, rude, disrespectful

10. What's a virtue?

  • a quality considered to be morally good
  • a negative quality

11. What's the test for Virtue ethics?

  • The Golden Mean
  • greater good for greater amount
  • can it be universalised, does it treat humans as an end to themsleves?

12. Definition of quality of life

  • how good / comfortable life is
  • the idea that life is special / sacred as it is a gift from God

13. What is Palliative care?

  • term given to patients not aiming to get better, but require a sense of comfort
  • oath doctors make to guarantee they will look after a life as long as they can

14. What type of ethical theory is Utilitarianism?

  • consequential ethical theory
  • theory for the greater good of greater amount of people

15. What's a 'dominion'?

  • the idea that God created everything for human use
  • inability to use God's creations

16. What's an 'atman'?

  • Hindus believe this is their soul which a part of their God Brahma
  • ability to use God's creations

17. What is Utilitarianism?

  • actions are right or wrong depending on the consequences
  • greater good for the greater amount of people
  • what a virtuous person would do
  • is something morally right or wrong

18. Definition of pro-choice

  • term given to those who are in favour of abortion and the women's right to choose what happens
  • term given to those who are against abortion and focus on protecting the right of life of an unborn foetus

19. What is a 'saviour sibling'?

  • a sibling that is born so they can donate organs or tissues to their sibling to save their life
  • a child that is born to aid an ill sibling

20. Definition of pro-life

  • term given to those who are against abortion and focus on protecting the right of life of an unborn foetus
  • term given to those who are in favour of abortion and the women's right to choose what happens