physician-assisted suicide/euthanasia

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Assisted suicide Medical ethics A passive intervention by a physician to help a person end life, including prescribing medications–eg, narcotics or barbiturates or counseling an ill Pt to use an overdose to end life; general situations in which a physician is called to assist in a final 'role call'; general concerns triggering requests for PAS&E include loss of control, dignity, being a burden on others. See Active euthanasia, Euthanasia, Initiative 119, Kevorkian, Slippery Slope.

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