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Bookmark or Share- Euthanasia in the United States - WikipediaCurrently, euthanasia is illegal in Massachusetts. According to Ch. 201D §12 Massachusetts states that "Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to constitute, condone, authorize, or approve suicide or mercy killing or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act to end one's own life other than to permit the natural process of dying". [15]
- Euthanasia - WikipediaWest's Encyclopedia of American Law states that "a 'mercy killing' or euthanasia is generally considered to be a criminal homicide" and is normally used as a synonym of homicide committed at a request made by the patient.
- Euthanasia | Definition, History, & Facts | BritannicaThis practice differs from euthanasia, also called mercy killing, in which a medical professional painlessly ends a person’s terminal suffering by withholding or removing treatment or life-support measures.
- Euthanasia: Right to life vs right to die - PMCRecognition of right to refuse treatment gives a way for passive euthanasia. Many do argue that allowing medical termination of pregnancy before 16 wk is also a form of active involuntary euthanasia. This issue of mercy killing of deformed babies has already been in discussion in Holland20.
- BBC - Ethics - Euthanasia: Ethics of euthanasia - introductionMercy killing. Very often people call euthanasia 'mercy killing', perhaps thinking of it for someone who is terminally ill and suffering prolonged, unbearable pain. Why people want euthanasia
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