passive euthanasia in a sentence
Examples
- Several major court cases advanced the legal rights of patients, or their guardians, to practice at least voluntary passive euthanasia ( physician assisted death ).
- The Roman Catholic church, which opposes medically assisted suicide, also indicated support for some kind of passive euthanasia, or removing life support to allow a natural death.
- The term " right to die " has been interpreted in a number of ways, including issues of suicide, passive euthanasia, active euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician-assisted suicide.
- Various countries, such as Germany and Spain, turn a blind eye to " passive euthanasia " for example by pulling the plug on people in a permanent coma.
- Official statistics are scarce but bioethicist Horacio Garc�a Romero claims that up to 45 % of the terminally-ill patients in the country demand some form of passive euthanasia.
- Patients retain the rights to refuse medical treatment and to receive appropriate management of pain at their request ( passive euthanasia ), even if the patients'choices hasten their deaths.
- If withholding treatment meant passive euthanasia for a patient near death, he wrote, then the patient might as well be killed by lethal injection or some other painless form of active euthanasia.
- Many doctors in France, after consulting with families, are known to discretely stop treatment for some patients in extreme suffering and with no hope of being cured, a form of " passive euthanasia.
- Hayden said he could see no difference between passive euthanasia, in which nothing was done to prevent a person's death, and active euthanasia which involved taking action to meet a dying person's wishes.
- Many doctors in France, after consulting with families, are known to discretely stop treatment for some patients in extreme suffering and with no hope of being cured, a form of " passive euthanasia ."