Passive euthanasia entails withholding treatment critical for the continuance of life (e.g. respirator, feeding tube).
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The American Heritage Dictionary defineseuthanasiaas:"The action of killing an individual for reasons considered to be merciful."
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The European Association of Palliative Care (EPAC) Ethics Task Force defineseuthanasiaas:"Medicalized killing of a person without the person's consent, whether nonvoluntary (where the person in unable to consent) or involuntary (against the person's will) is not euthanasia: it is murder. Hence, euthanasia can be voluntary only."
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Wiktionary defineseuthanasiaas:"1. The practice of intentionally and painlessly killing a human being or animal for humane reasons, especially in order to end great suffering or poor quality of life. 2. (obsolete) An easy death, or the means to bring about such a death."
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Dictionary.com defineseuthanasiaas:"1. Also called mercy killing. The act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition. 2. Painless death."
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