Overcoming conflicting definitions of “euthanasia,” and of “assisted suicide,” through a value-neutral taxonomy of “end-of-life practices”

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This drug may have analgesic Vol.: and/or sedative properties (e_g, morphine, an opioid; or pentobarbital, a barbiturate), or it may not (e_g, potassium chloride, an ionic compound which in high doses stops the heart from beating). A "terminal illness" is an incurable illness which will inevitably result in death unless something else- e_g, an acute traumatic injury-does first. An illness which will inevitably result in death might be incurable because a cure is just not available, e_g, end-stage kidney disease is sometimes curable with a kidney transplant but transplants are often . . .

 



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