An example of this would be a physician who administers a lethal dosage of a medicine causing the patient to die. Passive euthanasia occurs when the death of a patient occurs from the doctor withholding or withdrawing treatment. An example of this is when a physician removes a feeding tube, and the patient dies sooner because of this. ... Euthanasia, by virtue of being offered only to terminally ill patients, is meant to offer a quick and, by comparison, painless death to people who would have otherwise had to face the hardships of a prolonged death. ... In this case, we allow the physicia...

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