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- Published on: 18 May 2017
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Dear Editor,
Garrard and Wilkinson provide a clear discussion of the problems associated with the term passive euthanasia, and there are two answers to them [1].
The first is to find a word for refraining from prolonging life, which cannot be confused with actively causing death. Euthanasia means a good death, so a word such as "dysbiosis" (or a better Greek term for bad life) should be used, when tre...
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