EUTHANASIA VS "PULLING THE PLUG"

EUTHANASIA

• Deliberately intervening to end someones life
• Active Euthanasia
• Immediate death

PULLING THE PLUG

• Withdrawing nutritional support or ventilation from a patient in a persistent vegetative state.
• Passive Euthanasia
• The withdrawal of treatment is the occasion of which death occurs, but isnot the cause.

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Euthanasia is illegal in all states of the United States. Physician aid in dying (PAD), or assisted suicide, is legal in the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Vermont. The key difference between euthanasia and PAD is who administers the lethal dose of medication.

As of 2014, euthanasia is only legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Colombia, Japan and in the US states of Washington, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico and Montana.