... This includes but is not limited to removing respirators, nourishment, or halting necessary medication. In contrast, 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 or physician assisted suicide. This is the process of a physician supplying information and or the means of committing suicide to ... a patient. This would include writing a prescription for a lethal dose of sleeping pills or providing the patient with a ! recipe for a deadly combination of chemicals. Euthanasia has be...

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