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Amazing technological and engineering advances in the field of medicine are responsible for the outburst of literature and litigation concerning euthanasia. It is possible today for life to be sustained by artificial support mechanisms so that those who would have died quickly and peacefully a few years ago may now have prolonged lives. Though such technology and advances in medicine essentially postpone death and are therefore universally lauded as boons to society, legal, moral, and ethical problems have resulted which were not anticipated.
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Calaluca, L.A., Hirsch, H.L. (1984). Active and Passive Euthanasia: Medical and Legal Considerations. In: Carmi, A. (eds) Euthanasia. Medicolegal Library, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82239-1_13
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