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Top: Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Euthanasia
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Please put sites specific to the follow in the related cat:
*Physician assisted dying - Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Euthanasia: Assisted Suicide *INDIVIDUALS who support the right to die - Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Right to Die: People *ORGANIZATIONS that advocate for the right to die - Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Euthanasia: Pro-Euthanasia: Organizations *INDIVIDUALS who oppose the right to die - Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Euthanasia: Anti-Euthanasia: People *ORGANIZATIONS that oppose the right to die - Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Euthanasia: Anti-Euthanasia: Organizations *Legislation pertaining to the right to die - Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Euthanasia: Pro-Euthanasia *Polling pertaining to the right to die - Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Right to Die |
"Euthanasia" is often used to refer to all of the forms of hastened death:*Physician assisted dying - a physician provides a competent, terminally ill patient with a prescription for a lethal dose of medication
*Mercy killing - an individual, usually a close relative or friend, ends the life of another who is suffering
*"Self deliverance" - a terminally ill individual ends his or her own life without the prescription of a lethal dose of medication
*Voluntary euthanasia - a physician responds to a terminally ill patient's request for a hasten death by ADMINISTERING a lethal dose of medication to the patient
*Involuntary euthanasia - a physician administers a lethal dose of medication to a patient, without an explicit request from the patient
*Passive euthanasia - a patient's death is hastened by the removal or withholding of treatments or life support
*Active euthanasia - a patient's death is hastened by treatments given or administered to the patient
| Sites submitted to this category should be 1)neutral on the issue of assisted dying (they should neither advocate or oppose the right to die), and 2)should deal only with assisted suicide (see definition above). |
"Assisted suicide" or "physician assisted suicide" generally refer to the process by which a mentally competent, terminally ill individual uses a lethal dose of medication, prescribed by a physician, to hasten his or her death. It is legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the state of Oregon.
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Sites of ORGANIZATIONS that advocate for end-of-life choice should be submitted to Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Euthanasia: Pro-Euthanasia: Organizations. Sites about INDIVIDUALS who advocate for end-of-life choice should be submitted to Society: Issues: End-of-Life: Right to Die: People. |
This category is for stand-alone websites that advocate for end-of-life choice (a.k.a. the "right to die," "euthanasia," and "physician assisted dying").
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