SPECIAL DEATHS

JUDICIAL DEATHS:

electrocution hanging

musketry beheading or
decapitation

gas chamber lethal injection

 lethal injection:

Penthotal
Pavulon
Potassium
 Arguments IN FAVOR OF death penalty:

It is the only method of eliminating the hopeless

enemy of society
It deters potential criminals as no other form
of punishment does
Its brutalizing effect is an unproven
assumption
Society is relieved of the support for those
who continually war upon it
It is a positive selective agency to wipe out
the stock of ireformable criminals
Arguments AGAINST death penalty:

It is an irreversible penalty.
Mistaken judgments as to guilt
can no longer be cured.
It is not reformative.
It has no deterrent effect. There
is no proof of diminished
criminality.
It is a cold-blooded and
deliberate kind of murder
It is retributive or revengeful.
 Other forms of CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

crucifixion flaying impaling

Strangling or cutting assunder

smothering stoning

destruction by
drowning wild beasts precipitation
 euthanasia
Mercy Killing
o Deliberate and painless acceleration
of death of a person suffering from
an incurable and distressing disease
o Anti-bioethics

Types: ACTIVE
PASSIVE
 Multi-disciplinary standpoints:

RELIGION::
RELIGION PHILOSOPHY:
PHILOSOPHY Man
PHILOSOPHY:
PHILOSOPHY Man has
has
Ars the right
the right to
to die
die when
when
Ars longa,
longa, Vita
Vita breve.
breve.
Deus he
he
Deus autem
autem est
est que
que
vitae chooses to,
chooses to, provided
provided itit
vitae et
et mortis.
mortis. will not
not prejudice
prejudice the
the
will
rights of
rights of others.
others.

MEDICINE: There is
MEDICINE There
MEDICINE:
MEDICINE is no
no SOCIOLOGY: Euthanasia
SOCIOLOGY: Euthanasia
pain so
pain so severe
severe that
that is
is an
an endorsement
endorsement of of
modern medicine
modern medicine suicide
suicide and
and aa general
general
cannot relieve.
relieve. approval
approval of
of aa crime
crime
cannot
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bordering committed
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miracles do
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 Multi-disciplinary standpoints:

RELIGION: PHILOSOPHY: Man has

the right to die when
Ars longa, Vita breve.
he
Deus autem est que
chooses to, provided it
vitae et mortis.
will not prejudice the
rights of others.

MEDICINE: There is no SOCIOLOGY: Euthanasia

pain so severe that is an endorsement of
modern medicine suicide and a general
cannot relieve. approval of a crime
Recovery bordering committed for a
on miracles do occur. benevolent motive.
 POINTS TO PONDER:

If the law so much as allows a

patient to invoke his RIGHT TO
DIE, then why can we not allow
others to invoke such right for
him?

If the law regards a suicide

victim as one deserving of pity,
then why is giving assistance to
suicide a crime? (Art. 253,
RPC)
 SUICIDE
SUICIDE

PSYCHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION:

1. FIRST DEGREE: deliberate, premeditated,

self-murder
2. SECOND DEGREE: impulsive, unplanned,
provoked
3. THIRD DEGREE: voluntary self-injury:
ACCIDENTAL
4. SELF-DESTRUCTION DUE TO NEGLIGENCE:
chronic alcoholism, reckless driving, ignoring
medical instructions, smoking, dangerous life
5. JUSTIFIABLE SUICIDE: terminally ill
COMMON METHODS OF SUICIDE:

Drugs
Drugsand
andPoisons
Poisons
Hanging
Hanging
Firearm
Firearm
Precipitation
Precipitation
Drowning
Drowning
Cutting
Cutting
Electrocution
Electrocution
 Starvation
(Length of Survival)

the human body without food and

without food loses water, a person
1/24th of its wt. cannot survive
daily. 40% loss beyond ten (10)
results to death. days;

with water, a
person may survive
without food for 50
to 60 days.
 Types of Starvation:

Suicidal
(hunger strike)

Homicidal

Accidental