Euthanasia or physician assisted suicide is the practice of intentionally ending a person’s life.
Euthanasia can be carried out either by taking actions, including giving a lethal injection, or by not doing what is necessary to keep a person alive (such as failing to keep their feeding tube going).
'Extraordinary' medical care. It is not euthanasia if a patient dies as a result of refusing extraordinary or burdensome medical treatment.
It is not euthanasia to give a drug in order to reduce pain, even though the drug may cause the patient to die sooner. This is because the doctor's intention was to relieve the pain, not to kill the patient. It is referred to as the 'double effect".
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