Euthanasia
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What is euthanasia?
Euthanasia comes from Greek, meaning ‘pleasant death’. It typically refers to the killing of a person for their own (or another) good, usually to end their suffering.
While virtually no-one in modern society would condone involuntary euthanasia, ‘mercy killings’ and ‘assisted suicides’, where the person killed consents to his or her fate, are the subject of heated international debate.
An important distinction in UK law exists between active euthanasia and passive eutha...
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