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Euthanasia and Persistent vegetative state

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Difference between Euthanasia and Persistent vegetative state

Euthanasia vs. Persistent vegetative state

Euthanasia (from εὐθανασία; "good death": εὖ, eu; "well" or "good" – θάνατος, thanatos; "death") is the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering. A persistent vegetative state (PVS) is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness.

Similarities between Euthanasia and Persistent vegetative state

Euthanasia and Persistent vegetative state have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Aruna Shanbaug case, Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, Jacob M. Appel, Terri Schiavo case, The BMJ.

Aruna Shanbaug case

Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug (1 June 1948 – 18 May 2015), was an Indian nurse who was at the centre of attention in a court case on euthanasia after spending 42 years in a vegetative state as a result of sexual assault. In 1973, while working as a junior nurse at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Shanbaug was sexually assaulted by a ward boy, Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, and remained in a vegetative state following the assault. On 24 January 2011, after she had been in this state for 37 years, the Supreme Court of India responded to the plea for euthanasia filed by journalist Pinki Virani, by setting up a medical panel to examine her. The court rejected the petition on 7 March 2011. However, in its landmark opinion, it allowed passive euthanasia in India. Shanbaug died of pneumonia on 18 May 2015 after being in a persistent vegetative state for nearly 42 years.

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Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health

Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health,, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case involving a young adult incompetent.

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Jacob M. Appel

Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American author, poet, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic.

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Terri Schiavo case

The Terri Schiavo case was a right-to-die legal case in the United States from 1990 to 2005, involving Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo (December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state.

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The BMJ

The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal.

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Euthanasia and Persistent vegetative state Comparison

Euthanasia has 138 relations, while Persistent vegetative state has 118. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 1.95% = 5 / (138 + 118).

References

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