withdrawing some form of support and letting nature take its course. For example: removing life support, stopping medical procedures, stopping food and water and allowing the person to dehydrate or starve to death, and not delivering CPR.
Active Euthanasia: This involves causing the death of a person through a direct action in response to a request from that person. A well-known example would be the process that Dr. Kevorkian took on the Michigan resident and was found guilty of 2nd-degree murder.
Physician-Assisted Suicide: A physician supplies information and the means of committing suicide to a person so that they can quickly terminate their own life. The term "voluntary passive euthanasia" is becoming commonly used.
Except for involuntary euthanasia, all these terms are closely related because the victim requests the action. The only discrepancy is who is committing the act, and that is insignificant since the choice is up to the victim. So when physician-assisted suicide i
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