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Parent topics

• Medical ethics [r]: The study of moral values as they apply to medicine. ^[e]
• Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Tony Bland [r]: (1970–1993) Liverpool FC fan who was injured during the Hillsborough disaster who entered a persistent vegetative state. A legal case brought to the judicial committee of the House of Lords (now the UK Supreme Court) allowed the hospital with the support of Bland's family to withdraw the life support machine keeping Bland alive. Bland became the first patient to be allowed to die under this change in English law. ^[e]
  • Airedale NHS Trust vs. Bland [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nancy Cruzan [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Ariel Sharon [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Euthanasia [r]: The act of assisting in the death of an animal or patient, often to end suffering for an incurable disease; a painless death; sometimes called a mercy killing which may or may not be legal. ^[e]