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  2. Non-voluntary euthanasia - Wikipedia

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    Non-voluntary euthanasia is cited as one of the possible outcomes of the slippery slope argument against euthanasia, in which it is claimed that permitting voluntary euthanasia to occur will lead to the support and legalization of non-voluntary and involuntary euthanasia, [11] although other ethicists have contested this idea. [12] [13] [14]

  3. Euthanasia - Wikipedia

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    Euthanasia may be classified into three types, according to whether a person gives informed consent: voluntary, non-voluntary and involuntary. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] There is a debate within the medical and bioethics literature about whether or not the non-voluntary (and by extension, involuntary) killing of patients can be regarded as euthanasia ...

  4. Assisted suicide - Wikipedia

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    Euthanasia can occur with or without consent, and can be classified as voluntary, non-voluntary or involuntary. Killing a person who is suffering and who consents is sometimes referred to as voluntary euthanasia, and is currently legal in some regions. [9] If the person is unable to provide consent it is referred to as non-voluntary euthanasia.

  5. List of deaths from legal euthanasia and assisted suicide

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    Non-voluntary euthanasia (patient's consent unavailable) and involuntary euthanasia is illegal in all countries. Voluntary euthanasia is legal in Botswana, Belgium, [3] Canada, [4] Colombia, [5] Luxembourg, [6] the Netherlands, [7] New Zealand, [8] Portugal [9] and Spain, [10] and was previously legal in the Northern Territory. [11]

  6. What is assisted dying and how could the law change? - AOL

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    Euthanasia is the act of deliberately ending a person's life to relieve suffering in which a lethal drug is administered by a physician. Patients may not be terminally ill. Patients may not be ...

  7. Organ donation after medical assistance in dying - Wikipedia

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    The name given to the act of MAiD varies by country: in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Luxembourg, the act is referred to as euthanasia; another European term is physician-assisted dying (PAD); and medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is the common term in Canada. The terms PAD and MAiD cover assisted suicide as well as euthanasia.

  8. Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths - AOL

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    Medically-assisted dying – also known as voluntary euthanasia – accounted for 4.7% of deaths in Canada in 2023, new government data shows. The country's fifth annual report since euthanasia ...

  9. Euthanasia and the slippery slope - Wikipedia

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    As applied to the euthanasia debate, the slippery slope argument claims that the acceptance of certain practices, such as physician-assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia, will invariably lead to the acceptance or practice of concepts which are currently deemed unacceptable, such as non-voluntary or involuntary euthanasia. Thus, it is argued ...