with the aid of a physician. .
Terminating life-sustaining treatments is withholding or withdrawing.
life-sustaining treatments from a patient to let him or her die. This is similar to a living.
will, where a person requests not to be put on a respirator or any other form of.
life-support. They wish to die peacefully.
Indirect euthanasia is when a physician accidentally administers narcotics or other.
medication to relieve pain with the consequence of causing sufficient respiratory.
depression which results in the patient's death.
Euthanasia is also known as justifiable suicide. This is a rational and planned.
"self-deliverance" from a painful and hopeless disease which would eventually end in.
death. Suicide used to be a crime which was punishable by giving all the dead person's.
possessions to the government, instead of leaving them with the family of the deceased,.
but it has since been made legal. However, assistance in suicide remains a crime all over.
the world, except for a few countries in Europe. Punishments for assistance in suicide.
range from fines to fourteen years in prison. .
The most common reason for a person to ask for assistance in ending his or her.
own life is if an advanced terminal illness is causing unbearable suffering to that.
individual. Another, rarer, reason to seek an early end to life would be if an individual is.
so physically handicapped that he or she cannot go on living. This is less common.
because many take on the challenge of being handicapped and try to rise above their.
disability. But there are some who, after consideration, counseling, and re-training,.
would rather end there life than live with their affliction.
There are many ethical questions that must be asked when taking on the issue of.
euthanasia. Many believe that the first and foremost question is the age of the terminally.
ill, a minor is not mature enough to make a decision as significant as this one. Next, the.
