ause the person wishing to die does not accomplish the final act. The word 'euthanasia' comes from the Greek -- Eu, "good", and Thanatos, "death". Euthanasia, if one refers to the Greek origin of the word, means a good death, a gentle easy death. Euthanasia differs from physician assisted suicide because the physician actually performs the death-causing act after determining that the patient indeed wishes to end his or her life. Euthanasia has been referred to as: "the deliberate, rapid, and painless termination of life of a person afflicted with incurable and progressive disease that is leading inexorably to death. Euthanasia is the administration of death to the dying." Refusal of treatment applies to a patient's denial or discontinuance of life-support technology, such as a respirator or artificial nutrition. Administering drugs for the alleviation of suffering that may shorten lif
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