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According to oxford dictionary, euthanasia simply means “the practice of killing without pain a person who is suffering from a disease that cannot be cured”. From the statement, we can identify that euthanasia is assisted death, and assisted death is never legalized in Malaysia. However, euthanasia is separate to two types, which is passive euthanasia and active euthanasia. Passive euthanasia is a type of euthanasia that let the patient die naturally. For example, stop providing food and water to the patient is a kind of passive euthanasia. A more specific example is stop providing any treatment or medicine and watch the patient dies. In the other hand, active euthanasia is causing the death of a person directly. For example, giving some drugs to reduce the pain suffer by the patient who infected some kind of disease that cannot be cured, which will also fasten the death of the patient.

Specifically, to differentiate between active and passive euthanasia, the main idea is that the passive euthanasia is not the doctor killing the patient, however, is not rescuing the patient. In this case, not many people will blame the doctor by not rescuing the patient and watch the patient to death. Try to imagine that there is a building on fire and there is a kid inside. If you do not rush in and save the kid, your inaction will probably be blame by no one. Besides, there are also voluntarily and involuntarily euthanasia, which is request by the patient and not request by the patient respectively. In the context of Malaysian law, euthanasia is not legal. However, there are many people fight against a person’s right to life to get the right to choose whether they want to terminate their own life or not. A disease patient cannot choose to suicide or assisted suicide. Hence, we can clearly see that a person right to life is conflict with euthanasia, which is also known as assisted suicide.

Voluntarily euthanasia is death requested from a disease patient,