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Terms & Definitions

A -- M

 

Advance Directives

Assisted Suicide

Comfort care

Decisional Capacity

Do not resuscitate order (DNR)

Double effect

Euthanasia

Active and passive euthanasia
Involuntary euthanasia
Non-voluntary euthanasia
Voluntary euthanasia

Futility

Hospice/palliative care

Informed Consent

Living will - advance directives

Medical Futility

N -- Z

 

Palliative Care

Persistent Vegetative State

Physician Assisted Dying

Physician Assisted Suicide

Principles of Bioethics

Right to Die

Sanctity of Life

Slippery Slope

Substituted Judgment

Suicide

Terminal Illness

Terminal Sedation

Termination of Treatment

Ventilator

Withdrawing or Withholding Treatment