Euthanasia: Overview, Definitions, and Legislations Worldwide

Euthanasia
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Introduction
 Various societal issues are known as Legal issues, as they are dealt by law
and jurisdiction (Ezekiel J. Emanuel & Bregje D. Onwuteaka, 2016).
 There are many legal issue that are currently prevailing in the world like:
 Abortion
 Euthanasia
 Surrogacy
 Gay Marriage, etc.

Euthanasia Overview
It is basically the practice of ending the life of a person with
the help of an injection or some other medical treatment, on
behalf of that person(Henkten Have & Jos V.M.Welie, 2014).

Euthanasia Definitions
 Many scholars have defined Euthanasia in their own words. Some
world-class dictionaries also have given the definition of
Euthanasia(Ezekiel J. Emanuel & Bregje D. Onwuteaka, 2016).
 According to Oxford dictionary , Euthanasia basically means the
killing of a patient painlessly, which is suffering from a painful or
incurable disease , in sever depression or in irreversible coma.
 As per Cambridge Dictionary, Euthanasia is mainly the act of
killing a person that is very ill or very old, so that they won’t suffer
anymore.