Murder or saviour? You be the judge.

 Euthanasia is most commonly known as assisted suicide. There are many different types of euthanasia that most people aren't aware of. Active vs passive and voluntary vs non-voluntary.

Active euthanasia- medical proffessionals, or another person, deliberately does something that causes the patient to die.

•  using a poison to end ones life that is terminally ill which is usually an overdoes on pain killer or sleeping pills

Passive euthanasia-  disconnecting any type of treatment a patient has

• For example: switching off life support, disconnecting feeding tube, not following through with a life extending operation or receiving any drugs.

Voluntary euthanasia- the patient is aware of the situation and wishes to die rather than follow through with treatment

• For example: asks help with dying, refuses to eat, deciding to die rather than have their illness kill them or refusing medical treatment.

Non-voluntary euthanasia- the patient is unaware or cannot make the decision for themself

•  patient is either too young (infant), in a coma, senile, mentally retarded or has severe brain damage