Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

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The primary objective of this paper is not to discuss whether euthanasia and assisted suicide is right or wrong but to analyze the ethical issues involved. It attempts to show how ethical issues are integral to the practice of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide and how the implementation of ethical values should be within the ambit of the prevailing law so as to avoid conflict with the prevailing laws of the particular country.

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"The action of a person taking an overdose of medicines or pulling out the tube providing life sustaining intravenous fluids is termed as assisted suicide. Euthanasia can be either voluntary or non-voluntary. It becomes voluntary when a competent person expresses his wish to be helped to die for a reason based on his perception. If the patient is unable or competent enough to state his desire to die, then such euthanasia is said to be non-voluntary. If the act of non-voluntary euthanasia is performed against the patient's wishes, then it is involuntary euthanasia and such an event is viewed as murder under the ambit of law."

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