The term euthanasia means death without suffering, or a good death. There are four ways to qualify the word euthanasia. Voluntary euthanasia is when a patient makes a conscious decision that his or her life should end, and asks for help in doing so. This is sometimes called assisted suicide. Involuntary euthanasia is when an individual in society makes a positive decision to end the life of someone suffering without consent from the sufferer. Active …
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…respect, has basic rights and freedom and the power to control his or her destiny. To legalise assisted dying within certain strictly defined circumstances is fundamentally about choice. "Interfering with nature" has brought about enormous improvements in the comfort and quality of our arrival into the world. It is about time that we devoted at least an equal amount of attention, both philosophical and technical, to the comfort and quality of our departure from it.