This page explains some of the key terms and definitions used within the BBC Ethics section on euthanasia and assisted suicide. In active euthanasia a person directly and deliberately causes the ...

When terminal sedation is made the object of bioethical discussion, it is mostly in a way that a literary critic might call synecdochal: A part is taken for the whole. What is made the object of ...

In the current era of hi-tech medicine, the word euthanasia has been stretched to encompass a broad range of interventions. Guian Bolisay/Flickr, CC BY-SA Debate about euthanasia flares up in ...

If Senator Richard di Natale were to win the federal parliament’s support for his bill to legalise euthanasia, it would probably override state bans. AAP/Lukas Coch Greens senator Richard Di Natale is ...