Assertion: euthanasia | /r/HasProperty | active
Facets:
value: by definition
type: OTHER
value: importantly
type: DEGREE
value: as chooses to kill a person
type: MANNER
value: under this classification
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Though that judgment said the right to live with dignity under Article 21 was inclusive of the right to die with dignity, it did not arrive at a conclusion on the validity of euthanasia, be it active or passive.
text: Euthanasia is an active part of debates across the globe.
text: Euthanasia can be voluntary, non-voluntary or involuntary, and it can be an active or passive procedure.
text: Euthanasia can be active or passive, and voluntary, non-voluntary and involuntary.
text: Under this classification, euthanasia can be passive or active.
text: Importantly, euthanasia can be active (whereas a single act is performed with the intent to end the life) or passive (the withholding of treatment or sustenance).
text: Euthanasia can be active or passive, and voluntary, non-voluntary and involuntary.
text: Euthanasia can be active, as when someone intentionally chooses to kill a person by an act of commission, or it can be passive, as when someone brings about the death of a person by an act of omission .
text: Firstly, it claims that the distinction between active and passive euthanasia is in some way inappropriate: euthanasia is active by definition and hence “‘passive’ euthanasia is a contradiction in terms—in other words, there can be no such thing”.5