Abstract
The legal position in Sweden concerning euthanasia is that active euthanasia is illegal and regarded as murder. In certain conditions, however, it can get a lenient punishment or go without punishment altogether. Acceleration of death by painalleviating methods is illegal if it accelerates death more than is necessary to alleviate pain. Passive euthanasia in the form of forbearance to initiate life-sustaining treatment in a hopeless case is legal. If such treatment has been initiated, it ought to be legal to discontinue it, when there is no hope of recovery and death seems imminent. The state of the law on this point is not quite clear.
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