About The Medical Condition Mercy Killings
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Mercy Killings
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What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Mercy Killings?
The act or practice of killing or allowing death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy, i.e., in order to release a person or animal from incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. (from Beauchamp and Walters, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 5th ed)
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