key words

• KW- assisted suicide


  Giving someone the means to kill themselves because they ask for that kind of ‘help’.
• KW- voluntary euthanasia


  Intentionally prematurely ending another person’s life because they ask you to.
• KW- palliative care


  Giving pain-relieving care not specifically designed to cure (usually because a cure isn’t available).
• KW- curative care


  Providing care that tends (or at least intends) to overcome disease, and promote recovery.
• KW- active euthanasia


  Using direct means to intentionally prematurely end another person’s life.
• KW- passive euthanasia


  Withholding medical treatment, food and hydration in order to intentionally prematurely end another person’s life.
• KW- physician aided suicide

  when a person dies as a result of their own actions but with the help of a doctor or physician
• KW- physician aid in dying

  when a person's death is hastened, but not directly caused by the aid of a doctor or physician