Passive euthanasia.On November 30, 2004, France's National Assembly passed legislation by a margin of 551 to 548 allowing passive euthanasia euthanasia (y  'thənā`zhə), either painlessly putting to death or failing to prevent death from natural causes in cases of terminal illness or irreversible coma. , which supports withholding WithholdingAny tax that is taken directly out of an individual's wages or other income before he or she receives the funds. Notes: In other words, these funds are "withheld" from your wages. life-sustaining care. "It's a first step," said Jeanine Girnt, vice-president of the Paris-based association for the Right to Die in Dignity. "But what we fear is lawmakers will now say, 'We've dealt with right-to-die right-to-die adj. Advocating or expressing, as in a living will, a person's right to refuse extraordinary life-sustaining measures intended to prolong life artificially when the person is deemed by his or her physicians to be terminally or incurably issues, and we're not going further.'" |
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