Consensual homicide refers to a killing in which the victim wants to die.

The more common form is physician-assisted suicide, in which terminally ill people seek assistance from their doctors (or family members) to alleviate their suffering by ending their lives. This practice is legal in some jurisdictions, but remains controversial because of the legal, ethical and practical issues it raises. Dr. Jack Kevorkian is the most famous advocate of this practice. Euthanasia (Greek, good death) is the practice of killing a person or animal, in a painless or minimally painful way, for merciful reasons, usually to end their suffering. ... Terminal illness is a medical term popularized in the 20th century for an active and progressive disease which cannot be cured and is expected to lead to death or a disease for which curative treatment is not viewed as appropriate. ... In law, jurisdiction from the Latin jus, juris meaning law and dicere meaning to speak, is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted body or to a person to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to administer justice within a defined area of responsibility. ... Look up Controversy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For other uses, see Controversy (disambiguation). ... Ethics (from Greek ἦθος meaning custom) is the branch of axiology, one of the four major branches of philosophy, which attempts to understand the nature of morality; to distinguish that which is right from that which is wrong. ... Jack Kevorkian, M.D. (born May 26, 1928) is a controversial American pathologist. ...

In 1996 a Maryland entrepreneur named Sharon Lopatka arranged for her own torture and strangulation over the Internet, and in 2003 the German Armin Meiwes was found to have murdered and cannibalized an acquaintance. These two cases attracted considerable media attention. Both victims appear to have fully consented to their killings. Beyond their lurid sexual details, both cases introduce paradoxes about the respective responsibility of the parties, the legal differences between consensual homicide and suicide, and so on. Official language(s) None Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 42nd 32,160 km² 145 km 400 km 21 37°53N to 39°43N 75°4W to 79°33W Population  - Total (2000)  - Density Ranked 19th 5,296,486 165... It has been suggested that Entrepreneurial mindset be merged into this article or section. ... Sharon Lopatka Sharon Lopatka (1961 – 1996) was an Internet entrepreneur living in Hampstead, Maryland, United States, who was tortured and strangled to death in October 1996, for the purpose of mutual sexual gratification, by Robert Frederick Glass, a computer analyst from North Carolina. ... Torture is any act by which severe pain, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted on a person as a means of intimidation, a deterrent, revenge, a punishment, or as a method for the extraction of information or confessions (i. ... Armin Meiwes. ... Cannibalism in Brazil in 1557 as described by Hans Staden. ... Consent (as a term of jurisprudence) is a possible justification against civil or criminal liability. ... A party is a person or group of persons that compose a single entity which can be identified as one for the purposes of the law. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ...

See also

• Euthanasia