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euthanasiaHelp with a good death. (Legally vague but useful as a broad, descriptive term.)
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PASSIVE EUTHANASIAThe deliberate disconnection of life support equipment, or cessation of any life-sustaining medical procedure, permitting the natural death of the patient.
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Active euthanasiaDeliberate action to end the life of a dying patient to avoid further suffering.
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Active voluntary euthanasiaA lethal injection by a doctor into a dying patient to end life by request of the sufferer.
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Active involuntary euthanasiaLethal injection by a doctor into a dying patient without that person's express request.
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ASSISTED SUICIDEProviding the means (drugs or other agents) by which a person can take his or her own life.
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Physician-assisted suicideA doctor providing the lethal drugs with which a dying person may end their life.
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Physician aid-in-dyingEuphemistic term for medical doctor assisting the suicide of a dying patient.
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Self-deliveranceA person irreversibly ill who makes a rational decision to end his or her own life. This term is preferred by those who consider it mistaken to equate this type of action with suicide.
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suicideDeliberately ending one's life.
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