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Descriptor English: Euthanasia
Descriptor Spanish: Eutanasia
Descriptor eutanasia
Entry term(s) muerte por compasión
muertes por compasión
Scope note: Acto o práctica de matar, o de permitir la muerte por causas naturales, por compasión, es decir, para liberar a una persona de una enfermedad incurable, un sufrimiento intolerable o una muerte indigna. (Traducción libre del original: Beauchamp and Walters, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 5th ed.)
Descriptor Portuguese: Eutanásia
Descriptor French: Euthanasie
Entry term(s): Homicide par compassion
Tree number(s): E02.760.905.199
I01.880.735.344.500
N02.421.585.905.199
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005065
Scope note: The act or practice of killing or allowing death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy, i.e., in order to release a person from incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. (from Beauchamp and Walters, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 5th ed)
Annotation: HUMAN only; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL is available for animals; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE and EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE are also available
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
ES éthique
HI histoire
LJ législation et jurisprudence
PX psychologie
SN statistiques et données numériques
TD tendances
Related: Droit à la mort MeSH
Questions bioéthiques MeSH
Suicide assisté MeSH
DeCS ID: 28008
Unique ID: D005065
NLM Classification: WB 65
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/06/29
Euthanasie - Preferred
Concept UI M0007961
Preferred term Euthanasie
Entry term(s) Homicide par compassion



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