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  1. other names for euthanasia
    • assisted suicide
    • physician-assisted suicide (dying)
    • doctor-assisted dying (suicide)
    • mercy killing (more loosely termed)
  2. death as a culmination of life and it’s important part
    Euthanasia in the Ancient World
  3. a great influence of Christianity: it is only God, who has the right to decide on our lives.
    Euthanasia in the Middle Ages
  4. application of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
    Euthanasia during the period of national socialism in Germany
  5. euthanasia” comes from the greek word  meaning “good”
    eu
  6. euthanasia”  greek word meaning “death”
    thanatos
  7. Euthanasia is mentioned in the ...... The original oath states “To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death”
    Hippocratic Oath
  8. Suicide was a criminal act from the 1300s until the middle of the last century; this included assisting others to end their lives.
    English Common Law
  9. Recognized as the saint within the Catholic Church, once envisaged a utopian community as one that would facilitate the death of those whose lives had become burdensome as a result of torturing and lingering pain.
    Thomas More (1478-1535)
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    An ...... said that the modern era of euthanasia was ushered in by the availability of anesthesia.
    American National Institutes of Health bioethicist 1800
  11. An anti-euthanasia law was passed in the state of ....... It is the first known anti-euthanasia law in the USA.
    New York in 1828.
  12. societies (2 w/ year)
    • 1935 England
    • 1938  USA
  13. Doctor assisted suicide became legalized in ....... (place & year) , as long as the doctor ending the patient’s life had nothing to gain.
    Switzerland in 1937
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    An Episcopal priest, he later identified himself as an atheist) emerged as proponents of euthanasia
    • After the Second World War
    • Glanville Williams (1911-1997, Wales. A legal professor) and Joseph Fletcher (
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    →During the advocacy for a ........ approach to euthanasia grew.
    • 1960
    • right-to-die approach
  16. Rights ........ was passed in 1996 in the Northern Territory of ......... Under the Act ........patients died using a euthanasia device designed by .......
    • Rights of the Terminally Ill Act
    • Australia
    • four
    • Dr. Phillip Nitschke
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    (known today ..... ) was founded by .....  (1870-1952) and ...... (1865-1936) in .....
    • British Voluntary Euthanasia Society 
    • Exit
    • Dr. Killick Millard, Lord Moynihan
    • 1935
  18. 1997 Parliament voted ...... not to legalized euthanasia in the UK. MPs (Member of Parliament) have been against passing any laws because of the church of England’s (.........) view that “physician assisted suicide is incompatible with the Christian faith and should not be permitted by civil law”
    • 234-89
    • Angelican Church
  19. States that illegal to “aid, abet, counsel or procure the suicide of another” and sets a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.
    The Suicide Act 1961
  20. He had already become infamous for encouraging and assisting people in committing suicide. He claimed ..... to have assisted at least  patients to the end. He famously said that “dying is not a crime”
    • Dr. Jack Kevorkian (1928)
    • 130
  21. ........ voters approved the ......
    • Oregon
    • Death with Dignity Act in 1994
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