RELG 2650 Final Exam Review 100% Verified

RELG 2650 Final Exam Review 100% Verified The Medicalization of Death - answer- most people die in health facilities, 70% - most people would like to die at home - newer technologies are why more people are dying in hospitals (death felt more like failures so more treatment in hospitals was pursued) Islamic Approach to Death - Sachedina - answer1. life and death are in God's hands 2. Human ignorance denies the inevitability of death and tries to master it 3. death is a return to God, should not be feared Christian Approach to Death - Griffiths - answerChristian ambiguity toward death 1. Lament - death is a result of fall and sin - God's plan, don't seek death but don't do everything to avoid it 2. Joy - through death, Christians enter eternal life 3. Ambiguity - desire to be with Christ but remain in body and adhere to God's plan Killing and Allowing to Die - answerKilling: must create new lethal pathophysiological state with intention to kill Allowing to die: an act to remove intervention that has been forestalling death, intention can be good or bad Principle of double effect (criteria for an ethical action) - answer1. act- moral object of act must be good or morally indifferent 2. intention- can't intend the bad effect 3. bad effect- cannot be route to good effect 4. proportionality- effect of bad has to be proportionate to good Principle of double effect and removing treatment and pain relief - answer- object of act is good: relief of pain through medication - intention is good: relieve pain - death is a frozen possible consequence of the medication, but death is not the means to end of relief of pain - danger of hastening death for a terminally ill patient is proportionate to the good of relieving severe pain Objections to the principle of double effect - answer1. difficulty of analyzing intentions (sulmasy) 2. different understanding of action - "consequentialist analysis" -brock, quill, and dresses, double effect combines deontological and consequentialist aspects into a richer ethical analysis 3. arises from religious tradition Assisted suicide and euthanasia - answerAssisted suicide: doctor or person provides means to which a person kills themself (patient makes choice and does final act) Euthanasia: doctor acts to kill patient (injects morphine) - Voluntary : conscious patient requests to be killed - Non Voluntary : patient incapable of conscious decision is killed at request of someone with legal authority Person in legal position believes it is what the patient would desire - Involuntary : patient is killed against his will Religious concerns over assisted suicide and euthanasia - answer- God is Lord of life - life is a gift, not our property - Life is good - even in suffering, good should be protected - Obligations toward others - we can always be in service to others