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A euthanasia solution is a drug-containing aqueous solution for intentionally ending life to either relieve pain and suffering or execute convicts. [1] The drugs used in euthanasia solution do not only need to be safe to personnel, but they also need to have a rapid onset of action and minimize the possible pain felt by humans and animals. [2]
Medications that have been used in assisted suicide include Barbiturates, particularly secobarbital (brand name Seconal) [202] [203] and pentobarbital [204] [205] Propofol [206] Midazolam [206] Rocuronium [206] Combinations of medications are sometimes used. [202] Other medications and medication combinations have been considered. [207] [208]
Euthanasia, in the sense of the deliberate hastening of a person's death, was supported by Socrates, Plato and Seneca the Elder in the ancient world, although Hippocrates appears to have spoken against the practice, writing "I will not prescribe a deadly drug to please someone, nor give advice that may cause his death" (noting there is some ...
The book rates more than a dozen methods of euthanasia according to reliability and peacefulness scales. Strategies covered by the books include: the use of gases such as nitrogen, poisons such as carbon monoxide, prescription drugs such as insulin and the opiates, and former prescription drugs such as the barbiturates. [2]
Assisted suicide thus involves a person’s self-administration of deadly drugs that are supplied by a doctor. [2] The legality of euthanasia and assisted suicide varies. Non-voluntary euthanasia (patient's consent unavailable) and involuntary euthanasia is illegal in all countries.
Bittle said there was no "kill list" and the rumors about 12 dogs being euthanized on the policy's effective date, which was Jan. 16, was wrong. He pointed even his wife was concerned for the dogs ...
Debates about the ethics of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide date from ancient Greece and Rome. After the development of ether, physicians began advocating the use of anesthetics to relieve the pain of death. In 1870, Samuel Williams first proposed using anesthetics and morphine to intentionally end a patient's life.
On a cold, wet November morning in 1972, Roger Bontems was marched to the guillotine for complicity in two murders, neither of which he committed. He had requested a little extra time to comb his ...