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Since 1933 the Penal Code of Uruguay, article 37, accepts Compassionate Homicide, the first legal document that include euthanasia, although legal document didn't use this denomination. In another article, 127, the judge could waive the doctor, if this action was made by patient pledge and the doctor had an honorable reputation. [ 54 ]
In the United States legal and ethical debates about euthanasia became more prominent in the Karen Ann Quinlan case who went into a coma after allegedly mixing tranquilizers with alcohol, surviving biologically for 9 years in a "persistent vegetative state" even after the New Jersey Supreme Court approval to remove her from a respirator.
As of 2006, euthanasia had become the most active area of research in bioethics. [7] In some countries, divisive public controversy occurs over the moral, ethical, and legal issues associated with euthanasia. Passive euthanasia (known as "pulling the plug") is legal under some circumstances in many countries.
In Washington, physician-assisted suicide did not become legal until 2008. [70] In 1991, a ballot question asked if terminally ill adults should be allowed to receive physician aid-in-dying. The initiative failed, receiving 46 percent of the vote. [28]
Pothoven's formal request for legal euthanasia was denied in December 2018, when she was 16 after a clinic told her she was too young. ... Act," which became law in 2002. ...
The declaration on euthanasia. Vatican City: The Vatican. Stone, T. Howard, and Winslade, William J. "Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in the United States" in Journal of Legal Medicine (16:481–507), December 1995. Tassano, Fabian. The Power of Life or Death: Medical Coercion and the Euthanasia Debate. Foreword by Thomas Szasz, MD ...
Euthanasia in Canada in its legal voluntary form is called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD, also spelled MAID) and it first became legal along with assisted suicide in June 2016 for those whose death was reasonably foreseeable. Before this time, it was illegal as a form of culpable homicide.
The first euthanasia patient in the country was Ovidio González Correa, a 79-year-old man with a face deformed by a tumor who became a symbol of the fight for the right.