The History of Euthanasia

Euthanasia was part of society from the 5th century BC. In ancient Rome and Greece. Prior to the establishment of Christianity, the concept of euthanasia was considered to be tolerant. Pagan doctors do voluntary or involuntary sympathy killing. Hippocrates pledged to ban doctors from killing someone, even if it was requested or suggested to take such action, but most ancient Greeks or Romans The doctor did not abide by the oath. Despite extensive support for voluntary death in the territory of Rome and Greece.

Before talking about the history of euthanasia, it is first necessary to judge what is euthanasia. Euthanasia is a Greek line, meaning "health." In the dictionary, it is defined as "act of killing people without distress and pity." The American Euthanasia Association defines it as "ending life with painless means to end serious physical pain." This killing can be done in several ways. The implementation of euthanasia is as follows: passive, voluntary, involuntary, assisted suicide and doctor assisted suicide. Passive euthanasia is an act of stopping all medical care. Potential restraints are mechanical ventilators, life support medicines, and food. Treat spontaneous euthanasia according to patient's request. Unwilling active euthanasia is to kill patients without permission, such as incompetent adults and infants, for example.

There are three types of euthanasia, spontaneous euthanasia (euthanasia with patient consent), and involuntary euthanasia (patients can not give informed consent like childhood euthanasia) . And unwilling euthanasia (euthanasia for patients) their meaning). In this article, I focus only on voluntary euthanasia. It is the only wise situation acceptable for euthanasia. The other two options are not approved by the patient. The most important thing we must consider and obey is the patient's will because people do not have the right to decide the lives of others.

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