Voluntary Euthanasia: The person who is killed has requested to be killed.  (This may involve physician-assisted suicide if a physician is assisting in the death.)  Non-Voluntary Euthanasia: The person who is killed made no request and gave no consent....

The literal meaning of euthanasia is "good death," but in current world culture, euthanasia is being promoted as a means to quickly end the life of someone who is deemed to be ill, suffering, or whose life has lost value according to others. Euthanasia by action...

Classical moral philosophy has always distinguished various forms of treatment according to ordinary versus extraordinary means or proportionate versus disproportionate means.  Sound moral judgments may be made by examining the type of treatment to be used, the...

In an era of concern over escalating medical costs, "unproductive" consumers of medical services are increasingly made to see themselves as drains on society and the economy.