The diploma thesis focuses on attitudes towards euthanasia and summarizes the influential factors for its evaluation. It is crucial to understand these predictors in the context of the ongoing public debate on its legalization. The content of the theoretical part is a brief definition of used terms, an overview of some countries with legislation allowing assisted dying and its alternatives. There is a part devoted to methodological aspects of research and consistency of attitudes. The empirical part presents a research that is focused on the impact of individual factors on the level of acceptability of euthanasia in hypothetical cases. The factors examined were mainly type of disease, type and degree of suffering, type of euthanasia, person performing euthanasia, age of the patient, prognosis of their disease, respondent's country of origin and respondent's personality characteristics. Demographic correlates were monitored and respondents answered additional questions about the cases. The results show a significant difference in evaluation between the type of euthanasia and the person involved in the process. It also depended on patient's age and life expectancy. Moral evaluation also varied significantly in comparison of the country of origin, political orientation, and respondent's religiosity....
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:451863 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Cvrkalová, Eliška |
| Contributors | Vranka, Marek, Štětovská, Iva |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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