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2. Where the Smith/Jones scenarios occur.
3. The belief that killing is morally worse than letting die.
5. Simple medical procedure sometimes denied to infants with additional problems.
10. Condition of some infants used in examples involving surgery decisions.
11. Patient group used in examples about withholding medical procedures.
13. Respect for a patient’s right to make their own medical choices.
14. Individual either receiving or refusing medical care.
15. Form of euthanasia where a doctor directly causes death.
17. Not providing an individual life-saving treatment.
18. Medical involved in life-ending decisions.
21. Form of euthanasia involving withholding or withdrawing treatment.
22. The harm euthanasia aims to minimize or prevent.
23. Organization whose policy on euthanasia Rachels critiques.
25. Allowing death by not intervening—morally debated by Rachels.

1. The practice of ending life to relieve pain or suffering.
4. Type of medical care considered usual and not overly burdensome.
6. Permission required ethically for treatment decisions.
7. Stopping life-sustaining treatment or ending life.
8. Person who deliberately kills his cousin in Rachels’s example.
9. Type of medical care considered highly burdensome or extreme.
12. Person who allows his cousin to die without intervening in Rachels’s example.
16. Rachel argues this can be morally equivalent to letting someone die.
19. Medical care that can be given, denied, or withdrawn.
20. Steinbock says this mental state determines whether something counts as euthanasia.
24. Type of judgment both authors evaluate in the euthanasia debate.