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What (who) is euthanasia - definition
Euthanasia
·noun An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.
euthanasia
[?ju:??'ne?z??]
¦ noun the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or in an irreversible coma.
Origin
C17: from Gk, from eu 'well' + thanatos 'death'.
euthanasia
Euthanasia is the practice of killing someone who is very ill and will never get better in order to end their suffering, usually done at their request or with their consent.
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Euthanasia
Euthanasia (from 'good death': εὖ, eu 'well, good' + θάνατος, thanatos 'death') is the practice of intentionally ending life to relieve pain and suffering.
Examples of use of euthanasia
1. The list already includes euthanasia and cloning.
2. Chief executive of pro–euthanasia campaign group the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, Deborah Annetts, said: "This research proves that some doctors break the law and deliberately help patients die.
3. Any such move is unlikely to become law in the near future although pro–euthanasia MPs and peers are trying to establish a euthanasia law for adults.
4. However in the Netherlands, euthanasia and physician–assisted suicide are legal, Switzerland permits assisted suicide and since 2002 Belgium has also allowed euthanasia.
5. Luxembourg has become the third European country to legalise euthanasia.