Eutanasia
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Miss Betina Martinez
Eutanasia
Also called mercy killing act or practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from painful and incurable disease orincapacitating physical disorder or allowing them to die by withholding treatment or withdrawing artificial life-support measures. Because there is no specific provision for it in most legal systems,it is usually regarded as either suicide (if performed by the patient himself) or murder (if performed by another). A physician may, however, lawfully decide not to prolong life in cases of extremesuffering; and he may administer drugs to relieve pain, even if this shortens the patient's life. In the late 20th century, several European countries had special provisions in their criminal codes forlenient sentencing and the consideration of extenuating circumstances in prosecutions for euthanasia.
The opinion that euthanasia is morally permissible is traceable to Socrates, Plato, and theStoics. It is rejected in traditional Christian belief, chiefly because it is thought to contravene the prohibition of murder in the Ten Commandments. The organized movement for legalization of euthanasiacommenced in England in 1935, when C. Killick Millard founded the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society (later called the Euthanasia Society). The society's bill was defeated in the House of Lordsin 1936, as was a motion on the same subject in the House of Lords in 1950. In the United States the Euthanasia Society of America was founded in 1938.
The first countries to legalize euthanasiawere The Netherlands in 2001 and Belgium in 2002. In 1997 Oregon became the first state in the United States to decriminalize physician-assisted suicide; opponents of the controversial law, however,attempted to have it overturned. In 2009 the Supreme Court of South Korea recognized a “right to die with dignity” in its decision to approve a request by the family of a brain-dead woman that she be...
Miss Betina Martinez
Eutanasia
Also called mercy killing act or practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from painful and incurable disease orincapacitating physical disorder or allowing them to die by withholding treatment or withdrawing artificial life-support measures. Because there is no specific provision for it in most legal systems,it is usually regarded as either suicide (if performed by the patient himself) or murder (if performed by another). A physician may, however, lawfully decide not to prolong life in cases of extremesuffering; and he may administer drugs to relieve pain, even if this shortens the patient's life. In the late 20th century, several European countries had special provisions in their criminal codes forlenient sentencing and the consideration of extenuating circumstances in prosecutions for euthanasia.
The opinion that euthanasia is morally permissible is traceable to Socrates, Plato, and theStoics. It is rejected in traditional Christian belief, chiefly because it is thought to contravene the prohibition of murder in the Ten Commandments. The organized movement for legalization of euthanasiacommenced in England in 1935, when C. Killick Millard founded the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society (later called the Euthanasia Society). The society's bill was defeated in the House of Lordsin 1936, as was a motion on the same subject in the House of Lords in 1950. In the United States the Euthanasia Society of America was founded in 1938.
The first countries to legalize euthanasiawere The Netherlands in 2001 and Belgium in 2002. In 1997 Oregon became the first state in the United States to decriminalize physician-assisted suicide; opponents of the controversial law, however,attempted to have it overturned. In 2009 the Supreme Court of South Korea recognized a “right to die with dignity” in its decision to approve a request by the family of a brain-dead woman that she be...
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