Terminology
This is the term for euthanasia that occurs when a patient explicitly requests assistance in dying.
What is Voluntary Euthanasia?
This term refers to care focused on relieving symptoms and improving quality of life, not curing illness.
What is Palliative Care?
The argument against euthanasia that says that legalization will lead to deaths for less and less valid reasons.
What is the slippery slope argument?
The state that first legalizes PAS.
What is Oregon?
This European country was one of the first to legalize euthanasia in 2002.
What is the Netherlands?
This term involves withholding or withdrawing life saving treatment rather than taking direct action.
What is Passive Euthanasia?
This document outlines a person’s wishes regarding medical treatment if they become unable to communicate.
What is Living Will?
This principle emphasizes relieving suffering, often cited in arguments supporting euthanasia.
What is compassion?
The punishment for PAS in the UK.
What is 14 years in prison?
The European country where both euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal, reflecting personal liberty and regulated choice.
What is Belgium?
The term for when the patient is prescribed a lethal dose by a doctor and physically takes it on their own.
What is Physician Assisted Suicide?
The term for an individual making their own decisions about their life and body.
What is Autonomy?
This argument questions whether patients can truly make free choices under pressure or depression.
What is questioning true consent?
The amendment used in Vacco VS. Quill.
What is 14th amendment
The process of allowing non citizens to use Physician Assisted Suicide.
What is The Swiss Code?