• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpS6Z9z4T38

What would you do in Dot’s position?

Lesson objective

• The aim of this lesson is to present the facts about euthanasia – what it is, the three different types and what the law says about it in the UK.

Lesson objective

Lesson outcomes

• Grade C - will be able to explain the three types of euthanasia with examples

• Grade B - will be able to respond to questions concerning abortion law in the UK

• Grade A - will be able to give a detailed response to the euthanasia case studies in this lesson

Lesson outcomes

Key termsYou are going to see definitions of the

six key terms you need to know when discussing euthanasia.

Write the definitions in the correct spaces on the sheet. If you are worried about making a mistake, do it in pencil.

There are 3 types of Euthanasia• Carried out by a doctor performing a deliberate action.

• The painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease.

• Ending a person’s life deliberately and painlessly at their request.

• Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide.

• Ending someone’s life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have a good reason for thinking they would want you to.

• When medical treatment or life support is withdrawn.

Key terms

Lesson outcomes

• Grade C - will be able to explain the three types of euthanasia with examples

You have partially completed…

We still need these

In the UK

• Euthanasia is illegal

• It is seen as assisting someone to commit suicide which goes against the Suicide Act of 1961.

• The law says….“a person who aids the suicide of another, or aids the attempt by another to commit suicide shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years".

The law in the UK

Explain in your own words why Euthanasia is illegal in the UK

The law in the UK

• So the law says that by helping someone to do something that is NOT illegal, YOU will be committing a crime.

• Why do you think this is?

The law in the UK

• HOWEVER switching off the life support machine of a patient who has been tested and is shown to be “brain-dead” is not euthanasia and is legal in the UK.

• Why is this?

The law in the UK

Lesson outcomes

•Grade B - will be able to respond to

questions concerning abortion

law in the UK

You have completed…

There are 3 types of Euthanasia

• There are three main types of Euthanasia.

• All of them are illegal in the UK.

• They are:a. Voluntary euthanasiab. Assisted Suicidec. Non-voluntary euthanasia

Types of Euthanasia

To help you understand you are going to see a case study to go with each type

Voluntary Euthanasia

• Ending a person’s life deliberately and painlessly at their request

Voluntary euthanasia

Case study – Reg Crew• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDOzT3_HfwI&feature=rel

ated

• The shocking scene, to be broadcast on British television tomorrow night, shows Craig Ewert, 59, setting a timer to switch off his ventilator before drinking a lethal dose of sedatives. Less than 45 minutes later the retired university professor from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, passes away with his wife Mary by his side.

• Father-of-two Mr Ewert said he took the decision to end his life as his illness was rapidly paralysing his body. So rather than become a 'living tomb' and endure an agonising, lengthy death, he decided to die at the controversial euthanisia clinic. Mr Ewert said: 'I am tired of the disease but I am not tired of living. I still enjoy life enough that I would like to continue but the thing is that I really cannot.

• 'If I opt for life then that is choosing to be tortured rather than end this journey and start the next one. I cannot take the risk. Let's face it, when you're completely paralysed and cannot talk how do you let somebody know you are suffering? This could be a complete and utter hell. You can watch only so much of yourself drain away before you look at what is left and say "This is an empty shell.“

• Mr Ewert was diagnosed with motor neurone diease (MND), the same condition that affects Professor Stephen Hawking, in April 2006. He was told he had between two and five years to live. However, the disease progressed faster than expected and Mr Ewert was left without the use of his legs, wheel-chair bound and dependent on full-time care from his wife. He even needed a ventilator to help him breathe.

• He passed away in an apartment in Zurich on September 26 2006 just five months after he was diagnosed with

MND.

Case study – Craig Ewert

Do you agree with the decision that Craig Ewert made? Give a reason for your answer.

Three types – Assisted Suicide

• Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide

Assisted suicide

Case study – Jack Kevorkian

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6EAMD6NS9U

• Listen carefully to what Terry Youk says. Do you think Jack Kevorkian should have been sent to prison for what he did?

Case study – Jack Kevorkian

Non-voluntary

• Ending someone’s life painlessly

when they are unable to ask, but you have a good reason for thinking they would want you to.

Non-voluntary euthanasia

Case study – Terry Schiavo

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7hqowB4bPQ

• Who do you think should have the final say when the person concerned cannot communicate with you?

Case study – Terri Schiavo

Lesson outcomes

• Grade C - will be able to explain the three types of euthanasia with examples

You have completed…

We now have these

Lesson outcomes

•Grade A - will be able to give a detailed response to the euthanasia case

studies in this lesson

And also…

• All the forms of euthanasia you have seen so far have been ACTIVE – in other words someone has performed a deliberate action such as giving a lethal injection.

Active or Passive?

If euthanasia does happen, it can be active or passive• This is where treatment

is withheld or stopped because it’s just delaying the natural process of dying.

• Or increasing the dose of morphine to control pain, knowing that it will also shorten life.

• Some people say this isn’t euthanasia at all.

Passive euthanasia

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us93Q_nw4yw&feature=relmfu

Do you agree with what Dot decides

to do?

• Look at the sheet which contains six fictitious case studies. For each one:

• explain what type of euthanasia is being carried out

• Say whether it is active or passive.

Extension

Plenary

• You should have been starting to think of arguments for and against Euthanasia as the lesson has gone on.

• Write an argument either for or against Euthanasia on your post it note and stick it on the wall when you are asked.

• We will come back to your ideas next lesson.

Plenary