Jack Kevorkian since the media placed him in the public eye for his actions involved with euthanasia. ... The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines euthanasia as "the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy." ... Physician assisted suicide is when a doctor supplies the patient with the proper information, procedure, and or tools that allow the patient, themselves, to terminate their own lives with ease. ... Two examples of passive euthanasia are not disconnecting...

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For example, while Plato basically disagreed with suicide, he felt it should be an option in extreme circumstances, such as in cases of unmanageable suffering. ... The Oxford English Dictionary defines suicide as the act of taking one's own life; it originates from the Latin word suicidium when broken down sui, means of oneself, while cidium, is equivalent to the suffix -cide which means killer ("Suicide"). The Oxford English Dictionary also defines assisted suicide as suicide effected with the assistance of another person ("Assisted suicide"). ... According to the Oxford English Dictiona...

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