Involuntary Euthanasia – when conducted without consent by the physician, is termed involuntary euthanasia. Involuntary euthanasia is conducted where an individual makes a decision for another person incapable of doing so.

Passive Euthanasia – a patient refuses treatment which leads to his/her death.

Physician Assisted Suicide – when a terminally ill patient makes a decision to actively seek out the help of a physician to aid in suicide. In this case the physician often prescribes a lethal pill or injection which the patient takes voluntarily.

just some definitions…

Technically speaking, I don’t believe people have the “right to die.” But I mean this in the sense that a right is something that is meant to be protected by a society. When speaking of rights, one must speak of who is protecting/assuring those rights or advocating for them.

What would work for me is if two doctors agreed that someone had an terminal condition.

The complication is deciding at what point it is alright for the government to allow someone to die when measures can be taken to prolong their life. Since a government’s primary purpose is to protect life, careful work would have to be done to define why it’s okay for the government to aid in death.

As of now, you have the right to refuse life saving treatments, causing death, but you cannot choose to end your own life with the aid of a trained medical expert.

I think there is also a lot of confusion because euthanasia and physician assisted suicide are not the same thing.

No real

My short answer is that I’m fine with euthenasia in most regards save the spelling of it. Though, much like abortion, I think it’s the kind of thing only certain doctors would want to do and I think there should be at least two doctors in agreement, signing off, so to speak, on the procedure.