KEY TERMS-
Ethical - Observing or practicing certain accepted standards of moral behavior.

Euthanasia- Literal meaning is 'easy death'. The termination of life to relieve a suffering/ill individual.
-Active - when something is done deliberately to end a patients life. E.g- poison, lethal injection.
-Passive - when a patient dies because something is not done that is necessarily to keep them alive. E.g- withdrawal of medication, life support switched off.

-Voluntary- When a patient chooses to die.
-Non-voluntary - when the family or doctor has to decide as the patient is unable to, this can be due to a coma.

	Created by Katie Mellor almost 12 years ago

Note on Euthanasia, created by Katie Mellor on 05/05/2014.