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Active euthanasia or assisted suicide are not legal in Chile. Passive euthanasia, however, is legal. Since 2012, the regulation of patients' rights creates the right to informed consent, which allows accepting or refusing any medical treatment. Patients can refuse treatment when they are terminal. [31]
Even though euthanasia as well as physician assisted suicide is not legal in Massachusetts, the Supreme Court ruled in 1997 to not allow euthanasia or physician assisted suicide, but to give the freedom to the patient to refuse life supporting medical care by making these two laws different from one another.
Death is a natural process of life thus there should not be any laws to prevent it if the patient seeks to end it. What we do at the end of our lives should not be of concern to others. If euthanasia is strictly controlled, we can avoid entering a slippery slope and prevent patients from seeking alternative methods which may not be legal. [1]
Both allow euthanasia - or physician-assisted dying. Most recently, Spain and Austria have legalised assisted dying for both terminal illness and intolerable suffering.
Americans’ views on euthanasia have remained largely unchanged over the last decade, with most people believing doctors should legally be allowed to end a patient’s life, a new Gallup poll shows.
Leading academic experts in the fields of health, end-of-life care and the legal system have joined together to sign an open letter opposing the assisted dying bill which MPs are due to debate on ...
The first significant drive to legalize assisted suicide in the United States arose in the early twentieth century. In a 2004 article in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Brown University historian Jacob M. Appel documented extensive political debate over legislation to legalize physician-assisted death in Iowa and Ohio in 1906.
As Souter observed almost 30 years ago, those who support legal assisted suicide “base their claim on the traditional right to medical care and counsel, subject to the limiting conditions of ...