they are fairly split, but the majority of them think it is wrong.
mercy-killing physician assisted suicide
Active euthanasia should not be legalized anywhere, however physician assisted suicide should be
With assisted suicide you have the docotors help, often times a shot. Euthanasia is the same thing, but it is used for older people wh may have breathign problems and ask to be killed. Euthanasia is a nice way of saying assisted suicied.
Euthanasia, sometimes referred to as physician assisted suicide, is a Greek word for 'good death'. Euthanasia is the act of painlessly causing the death or failing to prevent the death from occurring from natural causes .
Physician-assisted suicide is a practice where a physician provides a terminally ill patient with the means to end their own life, typically through medication. This practice is controversial and subject to legal restrictions in many countries. It is important to distinguish this from euthanasia, where a medical professional administers the lethal dose.
Euthanasia
You cant! euthanasia is a method of assisted suicide that is chosen for terminally ill patients the only way to stop euthanasia is not to do it!!
Oregon permits physician assisted suicide.
In the United States, most euthanasia procedures are for animals and are performed by veterinarians. However, in Oregon physician-assisted suicide (a form of euthanasia) is legal under strict medical oversight, and the death penalty (state-sponsored involuntary euthanasia) is legal throughout the United States.
The Netherlands is the country that has the most permissive euthanasia law in the world. The Netherlands is located in western Europe.
I would say yes it does technicly contradict the hippocratic oath..... but we should remember the oath does not take in cout the patients will.
Euthanasia, abortion and physician assisted suicide is prohibited in the Philippines.