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Therapeutics > Patient Care > Terminal Care > Euthanasia

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Euthanasia  

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  • Killing, Mercy
  • Killings, Mercy
  • Mercy Killing
  • Mercy Killings

Note

  • HUMAN only; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL is available for animals; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE and EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE are also available

Scope note

  • The act or practice of killing or allowing death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy, i.e., in order to release a person from incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. (from Beauchamp and Walters, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 5th ed)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005065

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