Types of Euthanasia

09Nov07
  • Euthanasia: the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit.
  • Voluntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed has requested to be killed.
  • Non-voluntary: When the person who is killed made no request and gave no consent.
  • Involuntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed made an expressed wish to the contrary.
  • Assisted suicide: Someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they will be used for this purpose. When it is a doctor who helps another person to kill themselves it is called “physician assisted suicide.”
  • Euthanasia By Action: Intentionally causing a person’s death by performing an action such as by giving a lethal injection.
  • Euthanasia By Omission: Intentionally causing death by not providing necessary and ordinary (usual and customary) care or food and water.

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    1. 1 Snowball on December 3, 2007 said:

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7123460.stm

      This seems like an non-voluntry euthanasia by action. But is it? The circumstances, the knowledge of the executer on his victim seems to suggest that he is acting in an indirect voluntry euthanasia(at least, by what he precive as) from his victim…
      Also, the disease is found 8 years ago. Would it be possible that the victim expressed wish than, thus making it a voluntary, rather than non-voluntry?

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    2. 2 mikan on August 27, 2008 said:

      is the euthanasia a moral or immoral action????????

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    3. 3 Rob Farrow on August 28, 2008 said:

      Good question! But doesn’t it seem as if we need a really good understanding of what ‘moral’ and ‘immoral’ actually mean? This is where meta-ethics comes in…

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    4. 4 Nzan eku on September 6, 2008 said:

      Moral is what is to the general acceptance of the society while immoral advocate an unwellcome act.

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    5. 5 Nzan eku on September 6, 2008 said:

      I will be greateful. Euthanasa should be exercise in some part of africa, we are poor to pay for hispital bill, lack medical apparatus and sometimes demand for euthanasia.

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