Facts about Euthanasia
During this period, euthanasia proposals were sometimes mixed with eugenics.
Consequently, laws around the world vary greatly with regard to euthanasia and are constantly subject to change as cultural values shift and better palliative care or treatments become available.
In Catholic medical ethics, official pronouncements tend to strongly oppose active euthanasia, whether voluntary or not.
The most important official Catholic statement is the Declaration on Euthanasia (Sacred Congregation…, Vatican 1980).
A key turning point in the debate over voluntary euthanasia (and physician-assisted dying), at least in the United States, was the public furor over the case of Karen Ann Quinlan.
Critics of this position point to the fact that there is no relation at all between the Nazi "euthanasia" program and modern debates about euthanasia.
Euthanasia and suicide are not included among the reasons allowed for killing in Islam.
On November 5, 2006, Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists submitted a proposal to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics calling for consideration of permitting the euthanasia of disabled newborns.
Let us now see how individual religions regard the complex subject of euthanasia.
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Not unlike the trend among Protestants, Jewish movements have become divided over euthanasia since the 1970s.
Protestant denominations vary widely on their approach to euthanasia and physician assisted death.
Prior to World War II, the Nazis carried out a controversial and now-condemned euthanasia program.
By the 1960s, advocacy for a right-to-die approach to voluntary euthanasia increased.
The debate in the ethics literature on euthanasia is just as divided as the debate on physician-assisted suicide, perhaps more so.
Euthanasia societies were formed in England, in 1935, and in the U.S., in 1938, to promote aggressive euthanasia.
According to medical historian Ezekiel Emanuel, it was the availability of anesthesia that ushered in the modern era of euthanasia.
Meanwhile in 1990, the Supreme Court approved the use of non-aggressive euthanasia.
Euthanasia refers both to the situation when a substance is administered to a person with intent to kill that person or, with basically the same intent, when removing someone from life support.
During this period, prominent proponents of euthanasia included Glanville Williams (The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law) and clergyman Joseph Fletcher ("Morals and medicine").
The term euthanasia is used only in senses (6) and (7) in this article.
Nevertheless, owing to its principle of double effect, Catholic moral theology did leave room for shortening life with pain-killers and what would could be characterized as passive euthanasia (Papal statements 1956-1957).
When other people debate about euthanasia, they could well be using it in senses (1) through (5), or with some other definition.
The term "euthanasia" comes from the Greek words “eu” and “thanatos,” which combined means “good death.” Hippocrates mentions euthanasia in the Hippocratic Oath, which was written between 400 and 300 B.C.E.
Catholic church leaders, among others, began speaking against euthanasia as a violation of the sanctity of life.
In 1828, the first known anti-euthanasia law in the United States was passed in the state of New York, with many other localities and states following suit over a period of several years.
The report did not address the current illegality of euthanasia in the United Kingdom, but rather calls for reconsideration of its viability as a legitimate medical practice.
