Euthanasia

• Active Euthanasia involves taking active steps to end someones life

  • This is illegal in the UK
• Voluntary Euthanasia:

  • The ill person asks for their life to be ended because they don't want to live anymore
• Involuntary Euthanasia:

  • The person is capable of expressing a choice but is not given the opportunity
• Non-Voluntary Euthanasia:

  • The person is unable to express a choice e.g in a coma
• Doctors can decided to withold treatment if it is in the patient's best interest

  • Not resuscitating a person after a heart attack
  • Withdrawing food
  • Not considered Euthanasia
• Some countries in Europe allow euthanasia under strict criteria