Withholding chemotherapy from a terminally ill cancer patient could be a form of passive euthanasia.
Passive euthanasia can be defined as intentionally letting a patient die by withholding artificial life which in case is chemotherapy to cancer patients, but it can be ventilator or a feeding tube.
Passive euthanasia also includes a drug given to patient such as giving large doses of morphine to the patient to control pain, but instead that the painkiller will suppress the respiratory system and will cause death earlier than it otherwise would have happened.
Let us now know, why chemotherapy is important to cancer patients,
Chemotherapy helps to shrink a tumor for ill cancer patient so that other treatments, such as radiation and surgery, are possible. The goal of this treatment is to achieve a cure for the cancer.
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