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Part 3

Application in real life cases

our inquiry question

How do we apply natural law and situation ethics to cases of euthanasia? So we've done this a little bit in the previous section where we use one example, but we're going to pick out some more case studies because if you're doing the exam, you need to know the case studies. If you're not doing the exam, the case studies are just really interesting and bring to life the issues of ethics and euthanasia as well. So the first case study we're going to look at

is a case from France. So we're going to look at an individual named Shantel Sabir. Just a bit of

background on her. She was a school teacher in France. She was born in 1955, three children,

but unfortunately she developed a certain kind of nose cancer. Now, I

apologize for my pronunciation of this, but it's ethosion euroblastoma, which is a really rare

disease. It only appeared, I think, 200 times in the USA at all in the whole of the 20th century. Very rare. And what it is, it's a form of

cancer that forms a tumour, obviously in the head. And this tumour grows at quite a quick rate.

Now, if you want to see the kind of effects, feel free to Google her name, Chantelle Sabir.

Some of the images are pretty horrific of what happens to her.

Effectively, her head kind of, you know, inflates and stops working. She was in an incredible

amount of pain. She lost her sight. She lost her sense of taste. She lost her sense of smell.

She had to be on constant medication to deal with

the horrendous migraines and pain that she was in with her kind of head literally kind of,

you know, falling apart. There's a quote from her, which is, one would not allow an animal to go

through what I have endured. Now, if we're going to use some of our key terminology we were looking

at earlier, we would probably say that Shantel had quite a low quality of life. And she came to the conclusion

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