Active Euthanasia

The act or practice of killing for reasons of mercy, i.e., in order to release a person or animal from incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. (from Beauchamp and Walters, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 5th ed)

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Networked: 44 relevant articles (0 outcomes, 4 trials/studies)

Therapy Context: Research Results

Experts

1.	Kang, Jung Hun: 2 articles (11/2018 - 07/2011)
2.	Lee, Jung Lim: 2 articles (11/2018 - 07/2011)
3.	Yun, Young Ho: 2 articles (11/2018 - 07/2011)
4.	Gipe, Kelsey: 1 article (01/2021)
5.	Fan, Ruiping: 1 article (01/2020)
6.	Sun, Sihan: 1 article (01/2020)
7.	Choi, Yoon Seok: 1 article (11/2018)
8.	Do, Young Rok: 1 article (11/2018)
9.	Jung, Kyung Hae: 1 article (11/2018)
10.	Kang, Beo Deul: 1 article (11/2018)

Related Diseases

1.	Neoplasms (Cancer) 03/01/2000 - "The results of this study support the assumption given in the earlier literature that attitudes toward active euthanasia are most positive where terminally ill cancer patients are concerned." 03/01/2000 - "This qualitative study describes the attitudes of four groups of people in cancer care toward active euthanasia. " 10/01/2016 - "Cancer is a main reason for active euthanasia, or assisted suicide. " 09/01/2009 - "We retrospectively studied the frequency and basis of patients' requests for active euthanasia in the oncology setting.MethodsRecurrent requests for euthanasia made by the patients of Leon-Berard cancer center (Lyon, France) between 2001 and 2003 were recorded by questioning the physicians and nurse supervisors in charge or by collecting information from the minutes of multidisciplinary palliative care meetings. " 03/17/2000 - "Active euthanasia was accepted by a clear majority, if preconditions of a voluntary decision by a mentally sound person and incurable, terminal disease (cancer) are cumulatively fulfilled. "
2.	Pain (Aches) 03/01/2000 - "By implication, the study suggests that improving patients' awareness of the possibilities to relieve pain, anxiety and dyspnoea during the final days of life is an important way to reduce requests for active euthanasia." 01/01/2013 - "Medically indicated pain treatment which has a potential or certain life-shortening effect (indirect active euthanasia) is permitted under certain conditions: if there are no alternative and equally suitable treatment options without the risk of shortening the patient's life, if the patient has given his consent to the treatment and if the physician does not act with the intention to kill. " 01/01/2010 - "Presented with a situation of a terminally ill patient in considerable pain, 65.1% of the students supported or strongly supported withdrawal of life-sustaining technology (passive euthanasia), 34.3% supported the physician providing the means of death to the patient (physician-assisted death), and 28.3% supported the physician actually administering a lethal injection (active euthanasia). " 01/01/1997 - "In the decision making concerning active euthanasia the persons with positive attitude emphasized the meaning of terminal illness, the existence of suffering and pain and the self-determination of the person. " 03/01/1994 - "Active euthanasia was supported by 65% for only patients experiencing severe pain and terminal illness. "
3.	Death (Near-Death Experience) 05/01/2023 - "With 40 states denying patients access to medical aid in dying, the purpose of this end-of-life care review is not to persuade for or against medical aid in dying, active euthanasia, or other forms of dying with dignity, but rather to shed light on patient decisions and available end-of-life options for patients where medical aid in dying is not honored. " 01/01/2021 - "The author employs this biofixture analysis to affirm the intuition that deactivating a pacemaker in a highly dependent patient at the end of life is, in moral terms, more analogous to active euthanasia than it is to standard cases of withdrawal of treatment. " 12/01/2014 - "The recently enacted Israeli Dying Patient Act was designed to strike balance between enhancing patient autonomy in end-of-life decision making and cultural/religious norms that are in opposition to active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS). " 06/01/2013 - "During the end-of-life care, most clinicians accepted to continue current treatment without adding others (70%) and withholding of emergency treatments (75%); however, active euthanasia, the administration of drug to end-of-life, was not considered acceptable by both physicians and nurses in this research (96%). " 11/01/2010 - "The discussion in Germany about active euthanasia, limiting medical intervention at the end of life, patient autonomy, advanced directives, and PAS is not fundamentally different in content and arguments from discussions led in other European countries and the United States. "
4.	Breast Neoplasms (Breast Cancer) 01/07/1998 - "A case history of a breast cancer patient is used to exemplify ethical dilemmas in medical oncology: information of a cancer patient and his family, ethical problems with genetic testing, ethical issues with do-not-resuscitate-orders, ethical dilemmas with limited resources, problems with insurance companies, ethical issues in clinical trials and questions in dying patients including physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia. "
5.	Spinal Dysraphism (Spina Bifida) 04/06/1996 - "[Active euthanasia in newborn infants with spina bifida?]." 04/06/1996 - "[Active euthanasia in newborn children with spina bifida?]." 04/06/1996 - "[Active euthanasia in newborn infants with spina bifida?]." 02/10/1996 - "[Active euthanasia in newborn infants with spina bifida?]."

Related Drugs and Biologics

1.	Morphine (MS Contin)
2.	Potassium
3.	Hypnotics and Sedatives (Sedatives)
4.	Opioid Analgesics (Opioids)

Related Therapies and Procedures

1.	Assisted Suicide (Physician Assisted Suicide)
2.	Passive Euthanasia
3.	Resuscitation Orders (Do Not Resuscitate Orders)
4.	Terminal Care (Care, Terminal)
5.	Euthanasia (Mercy Killing)