Countries that allow passive euthanasia.
1. Netherlands - Euthanasia in the Netherlands is regulated by the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act, 2002. It legalizes euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in very specific cases and under very specific circumstances including the patient's will and suffering a second opinion and the absence of alternatives.
2. Belgium - Euthanasia was legalized in September 2002.The Belgian law sets out conditions under which the suicide can be practiced without giving doctors a licence to kill. Patients wishing to end their lives must be conscious when they make the demand and repeat their request for euthanasia. They have to be under 'constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain' resulting from an accidenmt of incurable illness.
3. Italy - Italian lawmakers passed a law in 2017 allowing thereby adults to decide, in consultation with their doctors, their end-of-life medical care, including the terms under which they can refuse treatment. We thus see that the law permits Italians to write living wills and refuse medical treatment, artificial nutrition and hydration.
4. USA - Active euthanasia is illegal in all US states but physician-assisted dying is legal in Oregon, Washington, and Montana. Most states allow passive euthanasia. It is a must for doctors to respect patients wishes as per advance directives.
5. Switzerland - Assisted suicide is allowed in Switzerland as long as the motive isn't profit. Active euthanasia is illegal.
6. Germany - Active assisted suicide is illegal. But passive euthanasia is allowed. Doctors can stop life-prolonging measures on patient's written wishes. It is also legal to administer painkillers to a dying patient.
7. Canada - Quebec allows physician assisted dying but not in other parts of Canada.