"Euthanasia: An Ethical Dilemma in Cancer Patients."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the European Cancer Conference, held October 29 - November 2, 1995, in Paris, France, "The recent technological and therapeutic developments in medicine, especially in critical care, might allow us to maintain artificially alive patients with incurable diseases like cancer. These progresses have lead to discussions about quality of life and euthanasia. Euthanasia is a painless death by applying appropriate care to relieve agony. Euthanasia is called active when euthanasia consists to provide care shortening survival, and passive when treatment is no longer used to prolong survival. It is practically easier in patients with incurable...

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