Role and Responses of Christianity into Euthanasia Abortion and Sexuality
The Role and Responses of Christianity into Euthanasia, Abortion and Sexuality. ... These issues include Euthanasia, Abortion, and Sexuality. Euthanasia is defined as the act of ending someone’s life in order to relieve incurable suffering. There are however three main forms of Euthanasia. Passive Euthanasia is the withdrawal of medical treatment or life support system thus resulting in a patient’s death whereas Voluntary Euthanasia occurs when a severely ill patient is given a lethal substance (at their request) to end their life. ... In 1980, the Catholic Church wrote their Declaration on Euthanasia. ... ” It has been more than sixty years since the worlds very first Voluntary Euthanasia Society was formed in London and more than twenty-five years since the Australian Societies were established. In 1995 Voluntary Euthanasia was legalised in the Northern Territory by the then Chief Minister Marshall Perron, sadly however this breakthrough and paradoxical so-called demoralisation was overturned by the Federal Parliament in 1997 after only four people had had the opportunity to choose to die. Every State in Australia has both considered and rejected legalising Euthanasia.