Euthanasia – Not Only at Patient's Request

Euthanasia - Not only by patient's request but also euthanasia and suicide assistance are not just to satisfy the patient's needs. Estimation of this error has been repeatedly confirmed by assisting the actual solution of euthanasia and suicide in a legitimate place. Yes, there are some complicated problems that are not publicly available in the press, but they are published in journals specializing in this discussion. The purpose of this paper is to correct these misunderstandings - with extensive specialized literature.

Since euthanasia was legalized in Belgium in 2002 and defined as "the doctor deliberately terminates the patient's life according to the patient's request", in Belgium it is only voluntary euthanasia that can be enforced legally (J Med Ethics 41; 625-629), 2015). However, such voluntary legal requirements are not always satisfied. Therefore, in a study conducted in Flanders in 1996, 3.3% of euthanasia cases occurred without prior patient request. In other words, they are unwilling euthanasia. Another study (also in Flanders) found 1796 cases of involuntary euthanasia (3.2%). In a new study in 2007, we found that the percentage of involuntary euthanasia is 1.8%, compared to 1.7% in 2013.

Euthanasia is further classified as "spontaneous", "involuntary" and "involuntary". Voluntary euthanasia means euthanasia at the request of the patient. Irregular euthanasia is a term used to describe the situation of euthanasia in cases where the patient is not euthanized and is designed to alleviate their suffering - in fact, this is a murder It is equivalent to. Spontaneous euthanasia is accompanied by euthanasia when the patient can not agree. The term related to the discussion of euthanasia is "active voluntary euthanasia", which usually ends life of a refractory or end-stage patient by using fatal drugs according to its demands It refers to intentional acts to make. The main difference between active voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide is assisting suicide and assisting physician in suicide, and the patient carries out murder

Voluntary euthanasia means a patient who has requested or agreed to euthanasia. Unwilling euthanasia means that he can not or can not. In case of voluntary euthanasia, the patient can make a request if the patient is conscious and consistent. Or, whether it is verbal or living will, it may be made in advance by him. The latter usually means that if he is suffering and there is no reasonable hope of recovery, he wants to maintain extraordinary health care and to make him die without pain as much as possible.