euthanasia?
Yes. When life support is switched off or treatment is stopped, the person dies from their illness, from natural causes.
When euthanasia is performed, a person dies from a lethal injection deliberately given to cause death. So to legalise
voluntary euthanasia means making it legal for a doctor to intentionally kill a patient – A shift in medical ethics that has
been established for thousands of years.
3. What is meant by the term ‘euthanasia’?
The word is a derivative of two Greek words meaning ‘a good death.’ In recent times it has come to mean the deliberate
killing of people – usually, but not always seriously ill or disabled – who are judged, either by themselves or others, to
have such a poor quality of life, that they would be better off dead. In the countries where voluntary euthanasia has been
decriminalised (The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) the killings are supposed to be performed by medical
practitioners but sometimes they are done by nurses. In New Zealand, all the cases brought to public attention in recent
times have been at the hand of relatives.
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