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Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Patient Care > Withholding Treatment > Euthanasia, Passive
Therapeutics > Patient Care > Withholding Treatment > Euthanasia, Passive
... > Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Patient Care > Terminal Care > Euthanasia > Euthanasia, Passive
Therapeutics > Patient Care > Terminal Care > Euthanasia > Euthanasia, Passive
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Problems > Crime > Homicide > Euthanasia > Euthanasia, Passive
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Criminology > Crime > Homicide > Euthanasia > Euthanasia, Passive

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Euthanasia, Passive  

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Definition

  • Failing to prevent death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy by the withdrawal or withholding of life-prolonging treatment.

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Synonym(s)

  • Allowing to Die
  • Euthanasia, Negative
  • Negative Euthanasia
  • Passive Euthanasia

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-C4FNLCXW-J

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