Issues of Life and Death Key Concepts Flashcards

• Life after death
• The belief that existence continues after death

• Ensuring that the demands placed on natural resources can be met.
• This does not reduce the capacity to allow all people and animals to live well now and in the future.

• From Greek, eu = good and thanatos = death.
• Sometimes referred to as ‘mercy killing’.
• The act of killing or permitting the death of a person who is suffering from a serious illness.

The process by which different living creatures are believed to have developed from earlier less complex forms during the history of the earth.

When a pregnancy is ended so that it does not result in the birth of a child.

The extent to which life is meaningful and pleasurable.

• The belief that life is precious or sacred.
• For many religious believers, only human life holds this special status.

• The spiritual aspect of a being; that which connects someone with God.
• The soul is often regarded as non-physical and as living on after physical death, in an afterlife.