Dr.Summers helps terminally ill patients take their own lives by enabling the patients to swallow or inject a lethal dose of drugs.Dr.Summers practices __________.

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Dr.Summers is practicing medical aid-in-dying, which is a form of assisted suicide in which a physician provides a terminally ill patient with the means to end his or her own life. In this case, the patient chooses to take their own life and Dr.Summers helps to facilitate that choice. Involuntary euthanasia would involve ending the life of a patient without their consent, while voluntary euthanasia would involve a physician ending the life of a patient with their explicit request. Ending life-sustaining treatment involves withdrawing or withholding medical treatments that are keeping a patient alive.

DrSummers Helps Terminally Ill Patients Take Their Own Lives by Enabling