Sentences with phrase «involuntary euthanasia»

As of 1995, approximately 3,700 persons died in the Netherlands each year by physician - assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia, with an additional 1,000 persons dying from involuntary euthanasia, which is forbidden under the Dutch practices and laws.

First, permissive regimes do not slide from voluntary euthanasia to non-voluntary or involuntary euthanasia (either in relation to the criteria for access or in practice).

The evidence in front of the court in Rodriguez in 1993 and in front of the Senate Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in June 1995, was taken to demonstrate that: medical associations around the world were opposed to decriminalising assisted suicide; palliative care was threatened by decriminalisation; and descents down the slippery slope from voluntary to non-voluntary and even involuntary euthanasia follow decriminalisation.

Assisted suicide, Smith says, is only the opening wedge of an argument that will inexorably lead to involuntary euthanasia.

(In the case of persons with preferences, Singer is opposed to any kind of forced, involuntary euthanasia.)

Critics of Roe v. Wade have long contended that the principles used to justify abortion would soon or late be used to justify other forms of medical killing such as voluntary and, eventually, involuntary euthanasia.

The Nazis practiced what is referred to in the literature as «involuntary euthanasia,» meaning consent of the victim was not necessary.

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Drawing on examples of what is happening in the Netherlands, where the practice of PAS and euthanasia (voluntary and involuntary) has increased even though not formally legal, Manning, Larson and Amundsen suggest that the policy and practice of euthanasia / PAS would weaken the general prohibition against killing.

Euthanasia may be voluntary, non-voluntary, or involuntary.