EUTHANASIA

By Esteban Beccaria

BEFORE WE START…

(here i will say that i decided that there will not

be any images during my presenstation due to

their sensitive content…)

WHAT IS EUTHANASIA?

EUTHANASIA IT’S A GREEK WORD (GOOD DEATH) THAT REFERS TO THE PRACTICE

OF INTENTIONALLY ENDING A LIFE IN ORDER

TO RELIEVE PAIN AND SUFFERING

HOW MANY TYPES OF EUTHANASIA EXISTS?

•Voluntary Euthanasia

•Non Voluntary Euthanasia

• Involuntary Euthanasia

VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA

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ts also called PSA (Physician assisted Suicide)

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t’s the practice of ending a life in painless

manner due to the patient’s request to stop

the treatment that he or she is receiving.

WHY CAN VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA TAKE PLACE?

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ecause no one can understand the pain and suffering that

the person feels during the disease, even with pain

relievers.

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nother reason could be that the person cant afford all the

costs of threatments and medication what it makes that

the patient’s life quality becomes very suffering.

NON VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA

Non voluntary euthanasia takes place when

the patients cant decide from themselves and

the decision must be taken by someone else.

Some examples could be patients that are

not mentally competent or comatose

patients.

WHY CAN NON VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA

TAKE PLACE?

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he decision can be made based on what the

incapacitated individual would have wanted, or it

could be made on substituted judgment of what the

decision maker would want were he or she in the

incapacitated person's place, or finally, the decision

could be made by the doctor by his own decision

INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA

The difference between non voluntary

and involuntary euthanasia is that in non

voluntary the decision must be taken by

someone else than the patient and in

involuntary euthanasia the patient is able

to provide consent but they arent asked.

WHY CAN INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA TAKE PLACE?

It takes place in special circunstances like the one that

we will see in this example situation:

“A soldier has their stomach blown open by a shell burst.

They are in great pain and screaming in agony. They beg

the army doctor to save their life. The doctor knows that

they will die in ten minutes whatever happens. As he has

no painkilling drugs with him he decides to spare the

soldier further pain and shoots them dead.”