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Euthanasia (ICCS 0105)
It means the “Death of a person by another person, with or without the consent of the dying person, with the intention of painlessly putting to death, relieving intractable suffering or failing to prevent death from natural causes in cases of terminal illness or irreversible coma.”
INCLUSIONS: Non-voluntary euthanasia; involuntary euthanasia
EXCULSIONS: Facilitating the death of a person who wishes to die, which would constitute a crime of Assisting or instigating suicide (0104)

[Source: International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, p.35, incl. footnotes 51 and 50. Web: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf]