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Encyclopedia Britannic defines euthanasia as: "Act or practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from painful and incurable disease or incapacitating physical disorder or allowing them to die by withholding treatment or withdrawing artificial life-support measures."
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Oxford English Dictionary defineseuthanasiaas:"The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable & painful disease or in an irreversible coma."
Passive euthanasia entails withholding treatment critical for the continuance of life (e.g. respirator, feeding tube).
The American Heritage Dictionary defineseuthanasiaas:"The action of killing an individual for reasons considered to be merciful."
The European Association of Palliative Care (EPAC) Ethics Task Force defineseuthanasiaas:"Medicalized killing of a person without the person's consent, whether nonvoluntary (where the person in unable to consent) or involuntary (against the person's will) is not euthanasia: it is murder. Hence, euthanasia can be voluntary only."
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