... support and letting nature take its course. Such an act would include removing life-support equipment, stopping medical procedures, stopping food and water and allowing the person to die. Active euthanasia involves causing the death of a person through a direct action in response to request from that person. This is also called mercy killing. Physician assisted suicide is the process of ... Dutch Medical Association and the Ministry of Justice in 1990 agreed a notification procedure with the following elements, subsequently laid down in regulations under the Burial Act. The physician pe...

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