Sentence examples for euthanasia act from inspiring English sources

The Grand-Duke did sign the Euthanasia Act under this new constitutional arrangement.

An important principle underlying the Dutch Euthanasia Act is physicians' responsibility to alleviate patients' suffering.

The Belgian Euthanasia Act, that legalizes euthanasia since 2002, is largely similar to the Dutch Euthanasia Act [ 18]: the Belgian Act includes similar criteria of due care but review is done by one multidisciplinary committee.

The Euthanasia Act states that there should be no 'reasonable' alternative available to relieve the patient's suffering.

Physicians may thus not fully address this criterion in their reports as it is formulated in the Euthanasia Act.

However, what physicians report may also be influenced by differences in knowledge of and viewpoints on euthanasia and the Euthanasia Act, and by uncertainty about how to deal with these criteria.

The theory of evolution has contributed to an increase in euthanasia (the act of killing someone painlessly or allowing to die to stop the suffering; also called mercy killing).

0.586       The theory of evolution has contributed to an increase in euthanasia (the act of killing someone painlessly or allowing to die to stop the suffering; also called mercy killing).

'Voluntary Euthanasia' is an act undertaken by one person to kill another person whose life is no longer worth living to them in accordance with the wishes of that person.

Article 1 states that voluntary euthanasia is an act performed by a physician, which intentionally ends the life of a person at the express and voluntary request of that person.

Schönfelder, it was discovered in 2005, went on to become one of the victims of the Nazis' murderous "euthanasia programme", which acted on the belief that the lives of the mentally ill were worthless.