"Euthanasia" is often used to refer to all of the forms of hastened death: *Physician assisted dying - a physician provides a competent, terminally ill patient with a prescription for a lethal dose of medication *Mercy killing - an individual, usually a close relative or friend, ends the life of another who is suffering *"Self deliverance" - a terminally ill individual ends his or her own life without the prescription of a lethal dose of medication *Voluntary euthanasia - a physician responds to a terminally ill patient's request for a hasten death by ADMINISTERING a lethal dose of medication to the patient *Involuntary euthanasia - a physician administers a lethal dose of medication to a patient, without an explicit request from the patient *Passive euthanasia - a patient's death is hastened by the removal or withholding of treatments or life support *Active euthanasia - a patient's death is hastened by treatments given or administered to the patient
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