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mercy killing to prevent a prolonged and painful death.
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The self-inflicted or assisted act of helping someone to die painlessly, often occurring among people with terminal diseases. The source of many controversial debates, euthanasia remains illegal in many countries.
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the understanding of the "Mercy Killing" of old and handicapped.
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means the humane destruction of an animal accomplished by a method that produces rapid unconsciousness and subsequent death without evidence of pain or distress, or a method that utilizes anesthesia produced by an agent that causes painless loss of consciousness and subsequent death
Ãâó: www.aphis.usda.gov/ac/cfr/9cfr1.html
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The use of deliberate medical means, usually lethal injection, to cause death. Used to avoid suffering in sick and aging pets, and to limit population of dogs in shelters.
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