RELIGION AND LIFE 

2 - MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH 

Key words - 
Abortion - remove of a foetus from the womb before it can survive 
Assisted suicide - providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide (e.g: Dignitas in Switzerland) 
Euthanasia - painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease (e.g: active - doctor giving patient an overdose of muscle relaxants, passive - turning off life support machine/not carrying out life-saving operation) 
Non-voluntary euthanasia - ending someones life painlessly when they are unable to ask/agree to it but there is good reason for thinking they would want to do so 
Voluntary euthanasia - ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death 
Immortality of the soul - 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 
Paranormal - unexplained things that are thought to have spiritual causes
Quality of life - idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living 
Sanctity of life - belief that life is holy and belongs to God 
Reincarnation - belief that souls are reborn into a new body after death 
Resurrection - belief that (after death) the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised