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_________________ is the study of death—delves into matters as diverse as the cultural anthropology of the notion of soul, the burial rites and practices of early civilizations, the location of cemeteries in the Middle Ages, and the conceptual difficulties involved in defining death in an individual whose brain is irreversibly dead but whose respiration and heartbeat are kept going by artificial means.

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Legal and medical quandaries regarding the definition of death and the rights of the terminally ill (or their families) to refuse life-prolonging treatments force physicians to think like lawyers, lawyers like physicians, and both like ________________.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers (2007) defines 'euthanasia' as: "1. An easy or painless death. 2. mercy killing; the deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from a __________________."

Webster's New World College Dictionary (4th Edition, 2010) defines 'euthanasia' as: "1. an easy and painless death. 2. act or practice of causing death painlessly, so as to _________________: advocated by some as a way to deal with persons dying of incurable, painful diseases."

Cobuild Advanced English Dictionary defines 'euthanasia' as: "The practice of killing someone who is very ill and will never get better in order to end their suffering, usually done at their request or with their ____________."