ABSTRACT
The term “euthanasia” can refer to a variety of distinguishable situations wherein someone causally contributes to a death for benevolent motives. 1 That is, where medical or nursing personnel, or friends or families, or individuals for themselves, act from beneficent motives so as to allow or cause an ill or handicapped person, whose life could have been prolonged by them, to die. Ethical analysis is central in guiding the actions of those who consider whether to engage in individual acts of euthanasia, and it is also central to considering the institutional responses to such practices.
