“mercy killing” euthanasia. euthanasia – when someone other than the patient, usually a...
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“MERCY KILLING”
Euthanasia
Euthanasia
Euthanasia – when someone other than the patient, usually a physician performs the act.
Types of Euthanasia
Physician-assisted suicide- when the physician gives the patient lethal medications and the patient kills themselves.
Voluntary active euthanasia- is when the patient request and the physician gives medication that the intent is to end the patients life
Places where its legal
Australia SwitzerlandOregonBelgiumNetherlands
Why would a person want euthanasia
Unbearable pain with the terminal illness
Cut on medical expenses
Ways to die by euthanasia
Lethal injection of potassium chloride Mercy killing machine
Dr. Jack Kevorkian
Help kill at least 130 people with his death machine
Was a pathologist A retired pathologist is the science or the
study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
Now released from his 10-25 year sentence