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Voluntary euthanasia is the ending of a person's life at their request in order to relieve them of suffering. Voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) have been the focus of intense debate in recent years. Some forms of voluntary euthanasia are legal in Australia, [ 1][ 2] Belgium, [ 3] Canada, [ 4] Colombia, [ 5] Luxembourg ...
Euthanasia (from Greek: εὐθανασία, lit. 'good death': εὖ, eu, 'well, good' + θάνατος, thanatos, 'death') is the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering. [ 1][ 2] Different countries have different euthanasia laws. The British House of Lords select committee on medical ethics defines euthanasia ...
The right to die is a concept based on the opinion that human beings are entitled to end their life or undergo voluntary euthanasia.Possession of the right to die is often bestowed with the understanding that a person with a terminal illness, incurable pain, or without the will to continue living should be allowed to end their own life, use assisted suicide, or decline life-prolonging treatment.
In Belgium, euthanasia for mental illness is legal if the patient is mentally competent to make the decision; the patient requests euthanasia on two separate occasions in writing; the patient is suffering from an incurable disease or mental illness, and all treatment options have been exhausted; and the patient is experiencing "unbearable suffering" from the illness, either physically or ...
Involuntary euthanasia is illegal in all 50 states of the United States. [ 1] Assisted suicide is legal in 10 jurisdictions in the US: Washington, D.C. [ 2] and the states of California, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, Maine, [ 3] New Jersey, [ 4] Hawaii, and Washington. [ 5] The status of assisted suicide is disputed in Montana, though ...
Canada. Voluntary active euthanasia, called "physician assisted dying", is legal in Canada for all people over the age of 18 who have a terminal illness that has progressed to the point where natural death is "reasonably foreseeable." To prevent suicide tourism, only people eligible to claim Canadian health insurance may use it.
The slippery slope. As applied to the euthanasia debate, the slippery slope argument claims that the acceptance of certain practices, such as physician-assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia, will invariably lead to the acceptance or practice of concepts which are currently deemed unacceptable, such as non-voluntary or involuntary euthanasia.
Thanatology is the scientific study of death and the losses brought about as a result. It investigates the mechanisms and forensic aspects of death, such as bodily changes that accompany death and the postmortem period, as well as wider psychological and social aspects related to death. It is primarily an interdisciplinary study offered as a ...