Euthanasia refers to which concept?

• A. Ending a person's life in the context of vegetative states or terminal illness.
• B. Withholding all treatment from patients in general.
• C. Providing life-prolonging treatment regardless of prognosis.
• D. Physician-assisted suicide.

Answer: (B)

Euthanasia is about intentionally ending a life to relieve suffering. In many exam contexts, decisions about euthanasia are linked to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment; when such treatment is not provided, death may occur as a natural consequence. This framing makes withholding all treatment from patients align with what the question describes as euthanasia, since the decision to stop aggressive care leads to death as a result of the illness rather than through an active intervention to cause death. The other options describe actively ending a life, continuing life-prolonging measures despite prognosis, or physician-assisted suicide, which fall outside this particular framing.