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When medical staff members act to end a persons life before death would normally occur?

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the legal term is homicide. in ethics this is typically referred to as euthanasia. if the patient participates in the act, such as self administering a lethal dose of a prescribed medicine (prescribed in a lethal dose with the intention of allowing death) is assisted suicide.
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