Voluntary Euthanasia: The person who is killed has requested to be killed. (This may involve physician-assisted suicide if a physician is assisting in the death.)
Non-Voluntary Euthanasia: The person who is killed made no request and gave no consent.
Involuntary Euthanasia: The person who is killed made an expressed wish to the contrary.
Assisted Suicide: Someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his own life with the intention that these tools and information will be used for the commission of suicide.
Physician-Assisted Suicide: A licensed physician provides the means for someone to kill himself through the use of legally prescribed drugs, instructing the person on how to use them. (Physicians may also speed a patient to his death by denying or withdrawing life-saving treatment; however, this is considered euthanasia by omission, not physician-assisted suicide, even though the physician is involved in the denial or withdrawal of treatment.)
Euthanasia by Action: Intentionally causing a person's death by performing an action, such as by giving a lethal injection.
Euthanasia by Omission: Intentionally causing death by not providing necessary and ordinary care or food and water. This is usually done against the will of the patient and the patients family.
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