Kontakt 2008, 10(1):79-84 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2008.011

Opinions concerning euthanasia in students of the Faculty of Health and Social Studies and Agricultural Faculty of the University of South Bohemia in České BudějoviceHealth and Social Sciences

David Urban*, Alena Kajanová
Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra sociální práce a sociální politiky

The article presented here considers in its theoretical part the problem of euthanasia. It indicates the current condition of prevalent attitudes of the western society to the death in terms of the depersonalisation and taboos. On the one hand, it reflects the attitude and medical consideration of the death, where the human life is being extended thanks to the technical advances in science and technology. On the other hand, voices calling for "worthy termination of the human life" are being considerably increased in number.
In its first part, the article considers the description of the situation of and attitude to the euthanasia in the Netherlands, which is a country where the euthanasia was legalized. In the introduction, it defines the basic terminology used - active euthanasia, passive euthanasia. Next to this, the article describes the historical development in the legislative process of accepting the euthanasia in the Netherlands.
In a further part, the authors consider opinions concerning the euthanasia in the Czech Republic, which are subsequently supported by their own research in the practical part. Opinions concerning problems of the euthanasia are mapped in students of the Faculty of Health and Social Studies and Agricultural Faculty of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, mainly from the standpoint of the agreement with the legalization of some of the types of the euthanasia in the Czech Republic. The responses exert more than half the number of voices for the agreement of respondents with the euthanasia legalization in the Czech Republic. The numbers are different in the method of performing the euthanasia, where for example assisted suicide is characterized by a significantly lower proportion of positive answers. However, only lower percent of subjects inquired would agree with performing the euthanasia in their close relatives.

Keywords: euthanasia; euthanasia in the Netherlands; opinions concerning euthanasia in the Czech Republic

Received: October 3, 2007; Accepted: March 27, 2008; Prepublished online: June 27, 2008; Published: July 27, 2008  Show citation

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Urban D, Kajanová A. Opinions concerning euthanasia in students of the Faculty of Health and Social Studies and Agricultural Faculty of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. Kontakt. 2008;10(1):79-84. doi: 10.32725/kont.2008.011.
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