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Stances towards euthanasia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Tim Helme
Tim Helme*
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Ashen Hill Unit, Hellingly Hospital, Hailsham, East Sussex
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Active voluntary euthanasia may be defined as the deliberate taking of a patient's life, or the facilitation of his or her suicide, with the informed consent and at the express request of the patient. It may therefore be distinguished from passive euthanasia, when no positive step is taken to hasten death but when potentially life-saving measures are intentionally withheld, and also from non-voluntary euthanasia, when the patient is unable to participate in the decision, or is incapable of providing an adequately informed consent.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 1 - 3
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