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Questions and Guidelines Euthanasia Questions and Guidelines

Essential Questions 1) How is euthanasia different from palliative care? 2) How have advances in medicine affected the traditional distinction between euthanasia and palliative care? 3) What is the difference between prolonging life and postponing death? 4) Do we have the moral and legal right to chose to die?

Some Definitions Euthanasia: Deliberately taking steps to bring about a person’s death for the purpose of eliminating suffering Direct (Active) Euthanasia: taking deliberate steps to end the life of a suffering and incurably ill person Indirect (Passive) Euthanasia: Deliberately not taking steps to prevent a sick person’s death, precisely with the desire and intention that this “withholding” will lead to or cause death *None are acceptable according to Church

Definitions cont Palliative Care: Physician Assisted Suicide: medical care to lessen suffering during terminal illness, especially with regards to pain medication Death is not willed or directly sought but may be hastened by care *acceptable by Church Physician Assisted Suicide: A person who is incurably ill killing him/herself with the help of a physician *Not acceptable by Church

1) How is euthanasia different from palliative care that might shorten one’s life? Euthanasia seeks the deliberate ending of one’s life to end suffering Palliative care seeks the lessening of suffering due to terminal illness

Essential Question #2 2) How have advances in medicine affected the traditional distinction between euthanasia and palliative care? Has blurred meanings of each Moved past mysterious boundary separating prolonging life and health from simply postponing death Challenging us to re-examine or moral and ethical reasoning

Essential Question #3 What is the difference between prolonging life and postponing death? Prolonging life a clear virtue: honors the sacredness of life Postponing death less clear virtue: can keep bodies alive but at what cost? Is the dignity and sacredness of life strengthened or weakened through medical science? Depends

Essential Question #4 Do we have the moral and legal right to chose to die? A Catholic Response: The Catechism: 2278: discontinuing burdensome medical procedures that are extraordinary and burdensome is legitimate. Key point, action cannot directly cause death; must be due to disease or condition

Answer Essential Question #4 Life celebrated as gift of loving God Each life in image and likeness of God Individuals have right to make own healthcare decisions and appoint a proxy Physical life is sacred but ultimate goal is everlasting life w/God; death need not be avoided at all costs

Suffering understood as fact of human life and has special significance for Christian: opportunity to share in Christ’s redemptive suffering Still, nothing wrong with trying to relieve someone’s suffering Euthanasia; seen as an attack on human life