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The American Medical Association (AMA), in its 2006 "Decisions Near the End of Life" policy statement, distinguished between passive and active euthanasia:
“Our AMA believes that: (1) The principle of patient autonomy requires that physicians must respect the decision to forgo life-sustaining treatment of a patient who possesses decision-making capacity. Life-sustaining treatment is any medical treatment that serves to prolong life without reversing the underlying medical condition. Life-sustaining treatment includes, but is not limited to, mechanical ventilation, renal dialysis, chemotherapy, antibiotics, and artificial nutrition and hydration…
(4) Physicians must not perform euthanasia or participate in assisted suicide.”
2006