Euthanasia Examples

GCSE Religious Studies (Philosophy & Ethics)

Euthanasia Examples

After an elderly patient dies, nursing staff begin to realise that her heroin syringes have been running out much faster after her daughter, a qualified nurse, has been to visit. However the coroner records that the patient died from bronchial pneumonia which was a result of the illness, not of the drug. Despite confessing to the medical staff what she had done, it was decided that there was no case to answer.

-the daughter increases the heroin dose, to relieve her mother’s pain but causes her death – VOLUNTRY EUTHANASIA.

A doctor treating an elderly, bed-ridden patient at home, leaves powerful sleeping tablets by the bed with strict instructions that no more than two must be taken on any account. The patient has already told the doctor that she wants to die.

- The doctor left extra pills which the patient used to kill her self. ASSISTED SUICIDE

A woman suffering from manic depression yesterday walked out in front of a double-decker bus. She was instantly killed. Her boyfriend ...