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Difference Between Euthanasia and

Physician-Assisted Suicide

Physician-Assisted Suicide

when a physician provides or prescribes medications to a patient with the understanding that the patient intends to use them to commit suicide

Illegal?

Active Euthanasia

Indirect Euthanasia

intentionally administering medications to cause a patients death with or without the patients consent

ILLEGAL

administering narcotics or other medications to relieve pain with incidental consequence of causing respiratory depression to result in a patients death

LEGAL

Passive Euthanasia

withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatments from the patient to let them die, such as life support

LEGAL

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