"Euthanasia, Active" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The act or practice of killing for reasons of mercy, i.e., in order to release a person or animal from incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. (from Beauchamp and Walters, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 5th ed)
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D028601
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.905.199.249 I01.880.735.344.500.249 N02.421.585.905.199.500
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| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Euthanasia, Active" by people in Profiles.
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Yun YH, Kim KN, Sim JA, Yoo SH, Kim M, Kim YA, Kang BD, Shim HJ, Song EK, Kang JH, Kwon JH, Lee JL, Nam EM, Maeng CH, Kang EJ, Do YR, Choi YS, Jung KH. Comparison of attitudes towards five end-of-life care interventions (active pain control, withdrawal of futile life-sustaining treatment, passive euthanasia, active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide): a multicentred cross-sectional survey of Korean patients with cancer, their family caregivers, physicians and the general Korean population. BMJ Open. 2018 09 11; 8(9):e020519.
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Stempsey WE. End-of-life decisions: Christian perspectives. Christ Bioeth. 1997 Dec; 3(3):249-61.