“MERCY KILLING”

Euthanasia

Euthanasia

Euthanasia – when someone other than the patient, usually a physician performs the act.

Types of Euthanasia

Physician-assisted suicide- when the physician gives the patient lethal medications and the patient kills themselves.

Voluntary active euthanasia- is when the patient request and the physician gives medication that the intent is to end the patients life

Places where its legal

Australia SwitzerlandOregonBelgiumNetherlands

Why would a person want euthanasia

Unbearable pain with the terminal illness

Cut on medical expenses

Ways to die by euthanasia

Lethal injection of potassium chloride Mercy killing machine

Dr. Jack Kevorkian

Help kill at least 130 people with his death machine

Was a pathologist A retired pathologist is the science or the

study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.

Now released from his 10-25 year sentence