Euthanasia
He is better known as Inmate #284797 in the Smi Correctional Facility, Michigan.In 1999 he was stripped of his medicine practicing license, arrested, trialed and convicted. He was sentenced to 7 years in jail. His charge: Euthanasia or Physician Assisted Suicide. As controversial as abortion, homosexuality or death penalty, Euthanasia is originated from Greek language, Eu means ˇ§Goodˇ¨ and Thanatos means ˇ§Deathˇ¨. Usually Euthanasia means that the person who wishes to commit suicide must explicitly request the act. But some expand this word to contain the involuntary termination of life. Although the final outcome is death, we must be able to differentiate between different forms of euthanasia. #1 Passive Euthanasia: it is the process of hastening the death of a terminally ill patient by eliminating any kind of life support given to him and eventually letting nature take its course. This is done by several methods, for example „« Not delivering any form of resuscitation in case of cardiac arrest. These procedures are mostly performed on patients in a vegetative state or comaˇK #2 Active Euthanasia: or commonly known as
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