Episode 14, Euthanasia (Part I)
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane
4.8 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Do we have a right to die? Is it ever okay to end the life of another? Is there a slippery slope? Tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Part I. Types Of Euthanasia (2:45), Part II. Relevant Concepts in Natural Law and Situation Ethics (11:45), Part III. Application in real life cases (00:05 in Part II), Part IV. Further Analysis and Discussion (27:00 in Part II). You can find links to all the reading at www.thepanpsycast.com. Make sure you've subscribed to us on iTunes to get new episodes as and when they're released! Thank you, we hope you enjoy the episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's reading of the Quran. Wait what? It's all backwards. |
| 0:07.3 | I don't understand. Let's just do the podcast instead. |
| 0:13.1 | Quoting from the art of prolonging life from New Philosopher Issue 15. For as long as there |
| 0:18.4 | have been human civilizations, it seems that we've been trying to live longer. |
| 0:23.6 | The Art of Prolonging in Life first published in English in 1854, Christopher Wilhelm, Hufland, |
| 0:29.6 | noted that each of the ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks had different methods of lengthening lifespans. |
| 0:35.6 | The ancient Egyptians were partial to the use of emetics and pseudorifics, which caused vomiting |
| 0:41.1 | and sweating respectively, and apparently would greet each other in the street not by asking |
| 0:45.4 | how do you do, but how do you perspire. |
| 0:51.3 | The world to die or end the life of another seems to fly in the face of human nature. |
| 0:55.0 | Why, how and when, if ever, is it appropriate to euthanize another human being? |
| 1:00.0 | Do we have a right to die? |
| 1:03.0 | Make sure you've left us a review on iTunes and subscribe to us there as well, |
| 1:08.0 | and you can get in touch with us via Twitter at the Pan Sidecast. |
| 1:17.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 14 of the Pan Sidecast. I'm Jack Symes and I'm joined by Mr. Andrew |
| 1:24.9 | Horton. Hello. And Mr. Oli-Mali as well. Hello. How do you both perspire? Well. I don't even know how to answer that question. Do I perspire well? Does that mean I'm happy? I'm happy if that helps. Yeah, that'll do. Sure. And so we're looking at euthanasia today. Obviously Obviously there's some really delicate topics, parts of this topic. |
| 1:47.2 | So we're going to have to look at it with a little less humor than normal, but we should |
| 1:51.9 | always do philosophy with a smile on our face. |
| 1:53.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:54.7 | I mean, the last one, religious experience, we said that we were going to take that somewhat |
| 2:00.3 | seriously. And I think we tre going to take that somewhat seriously, |
| 2:01.0 | and I think we treaded a fine line there. |
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