Name: Bryan Atencia.

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What is Euthanasia?

Euthanasia is an act or omission done to prevent hardship to people close to his death, accelerating knowing whether the person or without their approval. You can also consider the fact die without pain. Euthanasia is to cause the death of another by his well, which necessarily leads to narrow the circumstances and assumptions (mostly related to medical-care context) that give meaning to this humanitarian action, merciful and compassionate. The central element defines euthanasia is not the existence or absence of the consent of the person who dies, or active mode or negligent conduct that causes death, but the motives that animate it. Marina Gascn Abelln

Euthanasia is intended to prevent unbearable suffering or artificial prolongation of life of a patient. Euthanasia may have the consent of the patient or not. In between speaking concepts have been introduced to the ethical evaluation of euthanasia and the direct or indirect calls in there or not intended to cause death primarily in the actions that are performed on terminally ill. In the Anglo-Saxon context, we distinguish between euthanasia and euthanasia as action and omission (letting die). Its equivalent would be active euthanasia and passive euthanasia, respectively. They are also used in almost interchangeably, the positive and negative ratings respectively. However, the Spanish Medical Association and other institutions do not accept the terminological distinction between "active" and "passive" because it leads to confusion. They believe that euthanasia is always deontologically reprehensible, and that is not the act of suspending medical treatment intil. Direct Euthanasia: Advancing the time of death in case of an incurable disease. This in turn has two forms:

 Active: Consists cause a painless death at the request of the affected, most often the case shown is cancer, but may also incurable diseases like AIDS. It denotes, as understood, special substances or lethal overdose of morphine. Passive: stop trying a complication, such as bronchopneumonia, or intravenous feeding or another to the ill, thereby precipitating the end of life, death is a default. According to Victor Prez Varela, "passive euthanasia can take two forms: therapeutic abstention and therapeutic suspension. In the first case the treatment is not started and the second is stopped and started as it is considered that only prolong the life, prolongs the dying '. It should be noted that in this type of euthanasia is abandoned at any time the patient. Indirect Euthanasia: Consists perform therapeutic procedures that have death as a side effect, such as overdose of painkillers, such as morphine to ease the pain, the aggregate effect, as we know, is the decreased consciousness and almost always a shortening of life. Here the intentions certainly not shorten life but to alleviate suffering, and the other is an unintended consequence. Join well as from Thomas Aquinas called a problem of double effect, which is expected but it is not looking forward the patient's death.

Other related concepts Assisted Suicide: Means providing intentionally and knowingly to a person means or process or both needed to commit suicide, including advice on lethal dose of drugs, prescribing such lethal or delivery. It poses as extinguishing desire impending death, because life has been lost or rationale has become painfully hopeless. Remarkably, in this case is the patient who voluntarily and actively ended his life, hence the concept of suicide. The March 17, 2010, the Parliament of Andalusia (Spain) approves this law, the first reference in Spain. Cacotanasia: euthanasia is imposed without the consent of the affected. The word points to a bad death (Kakos: bad). orthotanasia: Consists time letting die without using disproportionate and extraordinary means for sustaining life. Replaced in practice terminology dignified death to focus the concept on condition (dignity) of the terminally ill and will not die. Dysthanasia: This is the "bitterness or aggressive medical treatment", by which it seeks to postpone the moment of death using any artificial means, although there

is no assurance that any choice to get healthy, to prolong the patient's life at all costs, leading to death in inhuman conditions. Usually done according to the wishes of others (family doctors) and not according to the true good and interest of the patient.

There are four basic conditions without which no euthanasia: 1. The intention of cutting the life of a human being. 2. The suffering of this man, so intense that it is unbearable for him who has it and who does not serve as treatments. 3. The fact that the person is suffering from end stage, has exceeded the bounds of possibility for science and therefore are useful as treatments. 4. The repeated request conscious and makes the person to shorten his life and so put an end to their suffering.