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passive euthanasia
noun
- a form of euthanasia in which medical treatment that will keep a dying patient alive for a time is withdrawn
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In 2018, India's Supreme Court allowed people to draw up living wills and thereby choose passive euthanasia, where medical treatment can be withdrawn under strict guidelines to hasten a person's death.
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Living wills aren't just about choosing passive euthanasia.
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Some other countries accept only passive euthanasia, where, at the patient's request, some medical treatments are stopped, causing the person's death.
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She had read of countries that allowed euthanasia - and India only permitted passive euthanasia.
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There is also passive euthanasia, where death is brought about by an omission - by withdrawing or withholding treatment in order to let the person die.
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