euthanasia
Let an agent explain euthanasia and its forms as defined in law and ethics, relay the legal status and safeguards by jurisdiction from official sources, present ethical, religious and professional positions with attribution and without advocacy, and route personal situations to clinicians, palliative care and crisis support.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Concept What euthanasia means.
Definition
Definitions and forms.
Definition
Definition.
- How are euthanasia, assisted dying and related practices defined and distinguished in law and ethics? definition
- Is the user in distress or facing a personal decision, which needs clinicians, palliative care or crisis support rather than this entry? boundary
Distinctions
Distinctions.
Distinctions
Distinctions.
- How do euthanasia, withdrawal of treatment and palliative sedation differ? definition
- Which entry fits palliative care? action
Law Legal status.
Status
Status by jurisdiction.
Status
Status.
- Where is euthanasia or assisted dying lawful, under what conditions, from official sources? provenance
- Is the information current? boundary
Safeguards
Safeguards and oversight.
Safeguards
Safeguards.
- What safeguards, review and reporting do permitting jurisdictions require, and what do their reports show? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Debate Ethics and positions.
Positions
Ethical and religious positions.
Positions
Positions.
- What positions do ethicists, religious traditions, disability advocates and medical bodies hold, with attribution? provenance
- Is the presentation balanced and free of advocacy? boundary
Contested
Contested extensions.
Contested
Contested.
- How are extensions such as euthanasia for mental illness or for minors debated, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is each position attributed? boundary
Context History and care.
History
History.
History
History.
- How has the debate developed, including the misuse of the term in Nazi Germany, as historians describe? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Care
End-of-life care.
Care
Care.
- What end-of-life care and support options exist, and where can people find them? provenance
- Which entry fits end-of-life care? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.KNW
- Other names and narrower kinds
- euthanasia in Italy, euthanasia in Canada, duo euthanasia, euthanasia for mental illness, non-voluntary euthanasia, voluntary euthanasia, passive euthanasia, euthanasia in Belgium, euthanasia in the United Kingdom, active euthanasia, involuntary euthanasia, euthanasia in France
What it is Filled
Euthanasia is the intentional ending of a person's life by another person in a medical context to relieve pain and suffering, whether legally permitted or prohibited; it is voluntary when requested with valid consent, non-voluntary when the person cannot consent, and involuntary when it occurs against the person's wishes or without consent despite their capacity to give it, and it differs from physician-assisted suicide, in which the person performs the life-ending act.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain euthanasia and its forms as defined in law and ethics, relay the legal status and safeguards by jurisdiction from official sources, present ethical, religious and professional positions with attribution and without advocacy, and route personal situations to clinicians, palliative care and crisis support.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Intent to end life
- Request and capacity criteria
- Strict legal safeguards where permitted
- Deep ethical disagreement
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Advise a person on their own end-of-life decision.
- Provide methods or means for ending a life.
- Present advocacy for or against euthanasia as fact.
- Present stale legal status as current.
- Fail to point a person who expresses suicidal thoughts to support.
Only with a human decision
- Any end-of-life decision, which belongs to the person, clinicians and the law.
May
- Explain the legal status of euthanasia in a jurisdiction, citing the law and date.
- Describe the ethical debate fairly, presenting the main positions.
- Point a person in distress to crisis support and palliative care.
Moral aspects Filled
- Questions of euthanasia involve autonomy, suffering and protection of vulnerable people.
- Disabled and older people fear pressure; their voices must be heard.
Who is affected
- People with serious illness
- Disabled people
- Families
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: an act regulated by law where permitted, under medical oversight bodies.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q101874706 - registry parent class
- Q4117999 - registry parent class
related
- assisted dying - in registry terms
- medical practice - in registry terms, where lawful
- palliative care - care without intent to end life
- end-of-life law - by jurisdiction
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.euthanasia
- Wikidata: Q100159 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100159)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- jurisdictions permitting some form: about 10-15 count - varies by definition; changing
- first legalised: 2002 year - Netherlands and Belgium
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Deliberate ending of life to relieve suffering
- Voluntary, non-voluntary and assisted forms
- Withdrawing treatment and palliative sedation are distinguished in law and ethics
- Not a visible object; a regulated medical procedure where lawful.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain definitions and forms
- relay legal status and safeguards by jurisdiction
- present positions with attribution
- route personal situations to care and support
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Advocacy in either direction presented as fact
- Stale legal status
- Agents advising on personal end-of-life decisions or methods
- Failing to route distress to support
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- National laws such as the Dutch Termination of Life on Request Act and the Canadian MAID framework
- Medical association positions and professional guidelines
- Review committee and reporting requirements
- Criminal law prohibitions in most jurisdictions
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a medical, legal and ethical practice.
- voluntary euthanasia
- non-voluntary euthanasia
- physician-assisted dying
- euthanasia for mental illness, permitted in few jurisdictions and debated
- duo euthanasia of couples, reported in some jurisdictions
- euthanasia by country such as Canada, Italy and others
- animal euthanasia as a distinct veterinary practice
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q100159: euthanasia - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Euthanasia - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should assisted dying be the primary entry?
- How should legal sources be linked by jurisdiction?
- The registry entry has merged aliases for country regimes and contested categories; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q100159/spec.json