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Life and Death
Edexcel unit 3.2 Matters of Life and Death
Question | Answer |
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abortion | the removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive |
assisted suicide | providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide |
euthanasia | the painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease |
immortality of the soul | the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body |
near-death experience | when someone about to die has an out-of-body experience |
non-voluntary euthanasia | ending someone’s life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have good reason for thinking they would want you to do so |
paranormal | unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes, for example, ghosts, mediums |
quality of life | the idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living |
reincarnation | the belief that, after death, souls are reborn in a new body |
resurrection | the belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world, when it is raised |
sanctity of life | the belief that life is holy and belongs to God |
voluntary euthanasia | ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death |