PSYC 3570 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Fertility Clinic, Homicide, Nonverbal Communication

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3570
• Professor: Gabrielle Pitt

Document Summary

Psychology of death and dying chapter 9 notes euthanasia, assisted. Death, abortion, and the right to die: all of these endings differ in significant ways, but all involve decision-making under stressful conditions. Key terms and concepts: a literal translation of the term euthanasia would be good or happy (eu) death (thanasia) Medications keep the patient in deep sedation or coma until death. At some point, families and hospital staff might agree there is no chance of recovery and that the patient is receiving no quality-of-life benefit from the life-support. Somebody pulls the plug and the patient dies: this would also be an example of withholding treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, physician-assisted death, medicine and other such terms all differ from suicide by involving the actions of another person. Assisted death, by definition, requires another person to contribute actively to the outcome.