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life at the patients steadfast request & involuntary Euthanasia where the justification of the act is not the patients wish but it is judged by others to be in the patients best interest.
Voluntary euthanasia & involuntary euthanasia is supported by different arguments.
In voluntary euthanasia choice is there & confine to entirely to medical help to die given at the patients considered & enduring request.
Nazi misuse word euthanasia to mean the destruction of handicapped people regardless of their wishes led to widespread avoidance of the word. • John Dawson said the word euthanasia is hopelessly overloaded with emotional connotation British society continued to use voluntary euthanasia in its original greek derived sense of gentle death & means of bringing about voluntary & involuntary euthanasia.
British society was 1st New York abandoned word. euthanasia in favour or choice in dying.
Australians & Newzealanders call their analogous society which make up world federation of 'Right to die' societies.
Many people flinched at the stigma attaching to death by suicide & extra grief this will cause their since it is criminal affence to aid abet caused or procure a suicide the death must be accomplished alone & a availed & for many this is no longer physically possible.
Group of doctors filed a suit in Washington declaring that the denial of physician assisted suicide was unconstitutional since it discriminated against those unable to act for themselves.
In Germany Switzerland & Sweden aiding a suicide is not crime & doctor can provide appropriate drugs to an incurably ill patients though not admister them.
In Australia Bill has been prepared which would allow doctors similar powers.
Newzealand & Britain court have treated leniently friends who provided assistance to incurably ill & suicidal patient.
Legalising the assistance of suicide in Britain might be more acceptable to the medical profession then making it legally possible for them to participate directly in the action that bring about death.
Most philosophers agree that allowing to die & helping to die are morally equivalent behaviour. For the doctor in that both recognise that gentle death is the only remaining good thing that can happen to this patient whether the doctor then expediates death by action or inaction, does not affect moral quality or responding to the recognition.
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