Terms Related to Voluntary Euthanasia

• Active Euthanasia

  The act or practice of killing for reasons of mercy, i.e., in order to release a person or animal from incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or …

• Passive Euthanasia

  Failing to prevent death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy by the withdrawal or withholding of life-prolonging treatment.

• Wrongful Death

  The killing of one person by another.

• Attitudes to Death

  Conceptual response of the person to the various aspects of death, which are based on individual psychosocial and cultural experience.