active euthanasia:
- occurs when the medical professionals, or another person, deliberately do something that causes the patient ti die
- some (mostly philosophers) go even further and say that active euthanasia is morally better, because it can be quicker and cleaner, and it may be less painful for the patient
- doctors faced with the problem of an incurable patient who wants to die have often felt it was morally better to withdraw treatment from a patient and let the patient die than to kill the patient (perhaps with a lethal injection)
- but some philosophers think that active euthanasia is in fact the morally better course of action
- in active euthanasia a person directly and deliberately causes the patient´s death
- active euthanasia is when death is brought about by an act – for example when a person is killed by being given an overdose of pain-killers

here´s case to consider:
- patient is dying of incurable cancer
- patient will die in about 7 days
- patient is in great pain, despite high doses of painkilling drugs
- patient asks his doctor to end it all

passive euthanasia:
- in passive euthanasia they don´t directly také the patient´s life, they just allow them to die
- passive euthanasia occurs when the patient dies because the medical professionals either don´t do something necessary to keep the patient alive, or when they stop doing something that is keeping the patient alive
• switch off life support machines
• disconnect a feeding tube
• don´t carry out a life extending operation
• don´t give life-extending drugs

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