Natural death

Japanese: natural death(英語表記)naturaldeath
Natural death

...According to this, active euthanasia is always illegal, but criminal responsibility may be denied in exceptional cases where it is deemed that the person who commits such an act cannot be blamed.
[Death with Dignity]
While the purpose of euthanasia is to free the sick from pain, death with dignity or natural death aims to allow the sick to maintain their human dignity. This is the act of stopping the continuation of futile life-prolonging measures for sick people with no hope of recovery and allowing them to die naturally, and is a similar concept to the aforementioned euthanasia by omission in that no active medical treatment to prolong life is provided.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "natural death" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これによると,積極的安楽死はつねに違法であるが,そのような行為に出た者を非難することができないと認められる場合には,その刑事責任が例外的に否定されることはありうる。
[尊厳死]
 安楽死の目的が病者を苦痛から解放するところにあるのに対して,病者に人間としての尊厳を保持させることを目的とするのが尊厳死death with dignityあるいは自然死natural deathである。これは,回復の見込みのない病者に無益な延命措置を継続することをやめ,自然な死を迎えさせる行為であり,延命のための積極的な医療をほどこさないという点では,前述の不作為による安楽死と類似した概念である。…

※「natural death」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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