death with dignity
Peaceful final autonomy
Death with dignity refers to the right of terminally ill patients to choose how and when they die, typically through physician-assisted means.
The phrase emphasizes autonomy and peaceful passing over prolonged suffering: She advocated for death with dignity laws after watching her mother's painful decline.
Several U.S. states have Death with Dignity Acts permitting doctors to prescribe life-ending medication to qualifying patients.
- hospice careEnd-of-life medical comfort
- comfort careSymptom relief, not cure
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- right to dieFreedom to end suffering
- informed consentPermission given with understanding
human rights · grief counseling · compassion · advance directives · patient advocacy · quality of life · moral agency · beneficence · anticipatory grief · euthanasia · living wills · ancestral traditions · terminal care · terminal diagnosis · pain management · symptom relief · self-determination · humane
- mortalitydeceased, mortality, mortality rates, dying, demise
- bioethicsbioethics, medical ethics, genetic engineering, beneficence, non-maleficence
- Body Rightsbodily autonomy, medical consent, self-ownership, reproductive rights, medical autonomy
- hospice carehospice, hospice care, hospice doctor, hospice aide, hospice volunteer
- euthanasiaeuthanasia, assisted suicide, assisted dying, aid in dying, voluntary euthanasia
- right to dieassisted suicide, euthanasia, right to die, voluntary euthanasia, mercy killing