1. Too Busy to Care?
Euthanize
Lynda M. Cooke
Eng 104
Colorado Christian
University
2. My name is Lynda Cooke.
I am a full-time student at Colorado Christian University.
My major is Psychology &
Ethics and Biblical Certification.
Today, I shall discuss the topic of death.
Many Americans feel uneasy about
the topic of death, however, every life
on earth will one day end.
With a faith in Christ,
death need not be feared.
3. Is Life a Possession?
Human Ownership
God’s Ownership
4. Human’s Ownership
Follow Oregon and Washington
Legalize Physician Assisted Suicide.
Arguments For :
According to Turner (1997),
With improved capabilities to intervene to decrease the
•My Body, My Life, My is a shift
number of deaths, thereChoice. towards a prolonged
process of dying. Patients then have time to develop an
understanding of what they might experience during the
•Death With Dignity.
latter stages of their illnesses, and want the opportunity
to decide if they are capable of enduring such
experiences.
Leads to Euthanasia,
as legal in the Netherlands
5. God’s Ownership
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day,
that I have set before you life and death, blessing and
curse; therefore choose life, that you and your
descendants may live, loving the LORD your God,
obeying his voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life
to you and length of days, that you may dwell in the land
which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them” (Deu. 18:19-20, RSV).
6. Euthanasia in The Netherlands
The Netherlands euthanizes
600 newborns every year
"Dilemmas regarding end-of-life
decisions for newborns with a very
poor quality of life and presumably
unbearable suffering and no hope of
improvement are shared by
physicians throughout the world."
Dr. Verhagen
7. Euthanasia In the United States
Dr. Ana Pau injected four non-critical patients with a lethal dose of
morphine and Versed prior to the arrival of Hurricane Katrina; all four
In August, 2005, prior to the arrival of
were Do Not Resuscitate, changing it to Do Not Rescue
She methodically and purposefullyNewthe patients
Hurricane Katrina in killed Orleans
rather than move them to safety.
9. The Danger of
legalized
Physician Assisted Suicide
As proven in the Netherlands, legalized euthanasia
follows the legalization of physician assisted suicide.
Once euthanasia become legal, the following people
fall under the criteria, set by the law, to be either
voluntarily or involuntarily euthanized.
12. Solution
1. Care for those who are weak, ill, or at the end-of-life,
“I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in
prison and you came to me.”
(Mat. 25:36)
2. Support our physicians to keep their Hippocratic oath,
"I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required,
avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.“
(Stubbs, 2009)
13. References
Campbell, C. (2000, January). Euthanasia and religion. the unesco courier,53(1). 36-39.
Drew, G. (2010, August). Euthanasia and the myth of mastery, Stimulus, 18(3). 45-46.
Dwyer, L.L., Hansebo, G., Andershed, B., Ternestedt, B.M. (2010). Nursing home residents' view
on dying and death: Nursing home employee's perspective. International journal of older
people nursing, 351-360.
Koch, T. (2008). Were polio to return today. Salon: Canadian medical association.178(9). 1244.
Lugosi, C.I., (2007, November 1). Natural disasters, unnatural deaths: The killings on the life
care floors at Tenet's Memorial Medical Center after hurricane Katrina. Issues in law and
medicine, 23. 71-85.
Nolan, S. (2010). Review. [Review of the book: Is there a Christian case for assisted dying?
Voluntary euthanasia reassessed,. by P. Badham]. Practical Theology, 392-394. doi:
10.1558/prth.v3i3.392.
14. References
Stubbs, J.W. (2009, July/August). Universal care frees doctors to take 'all measures
required'. ACP Internist. Retrieved from:
http://www.acpinternist.org/archives/2009/07/presidents.htm
The Holy Bible: Harper study Bible revised standard version. (1988). Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan.
Turner, L. (1997). Euthanasia and distinctive horizons of moral reasoning. Morality.2(3).
191-205.
Verhagen, E., Sauer, P. J. J. (2005, March 10). The groningen protocol: Euthanasia in
severely ill newborns. New England journal of medicine, 352(10). 959-962.
Wijsbek, H. (2012). 'To thine own self be true': On the loss of integrity as a kind of
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