euthanasia
With euthanasia ( ancient Greek εὐθανασία ; of εὖ eu , "good, right, right," and θάνατος Thanatos , "death, dying") is called:
- (originally) a "good death" from the point of view of the dying person and his relatives (see history of euthanasia )
- as a euphemism the systematic murders of the sick during the Nazi era as part of the Nazi "racial hygiene"
- Child euthanasia , murder of children in hospitals in " children's departments "
- Action T4 , adult “euthanasia”, murder of psychiatric patients and the disabled in 1940/1941 in killing centers
- Operation 14f13 , murder of concentration camp prisoners in the killing centers of Operation T4
- Aktion Brandt , murder of psychiatric patients and the disabled in hospitals from 1943
- Passive and active euthanasia , the support of the dying in the last phase of life ( Euthanasia medicinalis ) or in bringing about the death desired by the terminally ill. Because of its Nazi history, the term is hardly used in Germany with this meaning (but in other European countries).
- the euthanasia or other friendly as possible killing of animals for the prevention of unnecessary suffering.
See also
Wiktionary: Euthanasia - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
