Euthansia Legal Moral and Ethical Aspect

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TOPIC:

EUTHANASIA: ITS LEGAL, ETHICAL & MORAL ASPECT.

Name of Student:                Sania Noor

ID Number of Student:        

Assignment Number:        01

Due Date:                        07th May, 2016.

Name of Tutor:                R/Sir Mr. Asmatullah Kakar

EUTHANASIA: ITS LEGAL, ETHICAL & MORAL ASPECT.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

S.No.                                CONTENTS                                        PAGE NO.

01.                    Abstract                                                             04

02.                    Introduction: Basic concept of Euthanasia                     05

03.                      Derivation                                                                  05

04.                    Definition                                                                  05

• According to Historian Suetonius
• According to Francis Bacon:
• According to Marvin Kohl (1974) Book the

Morality of Killing

• According to Oxford Dictionary
• According to Kohl Marvin and Paul Kurtz
• According to MediLexicon’s Medical Dictionary  
• Combined Collective/ General Definition

05.                     Historical Background of Euthanasia                                  06

• Hippocrates (CA. 460 BC-CA. 370 BC):
• English Common Law
• Thomas More (1478-1535:
• Swiss Legislation
• After World War-I:
• In Australia
• In United Kingdom
• In United States of America

06.                    Classification of Euthanasia                                          07

• Voluntary Euthanasia
• Involuntary Euthanasia

07.                    Modes of carrying out Euthanasia                                 08

• Active Euthanasia
• Passive Euthanasia

08.                        Countries/States where Euthanasia is Legal             08

09.                        Legal, Ethical& Moral aspects of Euthanasia              08

10.                        Legal Aspects of Euthanasia                             09

11.                        Moral and Ethical aspect of Euthanasia                      09

• Baby Therasa Case

12.                           Conclusion                                                     09

13.                        References                                                     10

ABSTRACT:        

                 The word Euthanasia has been derived from two Greek terms “Eu” means True and “Thanatos” means death. So, it is basically a combination of two Greek words making a term “Good Death” denoting thereby the practice which results in finishing one’s life in order to provide him relief from the pain or suffering. Or it may be defined as the practice of ending a life prematurely in order to end pain and suffering. “It is a practice also known as assisted suicide, Physician-assisted suicide(dying), doctor-assisted dying (suicide), and more loosely termed mercy killing, means to take a deliberate action with the express intention of ending a life to relieve intractable(persistent, unstoppable) suffering”^[1].