Euthanasia
• It is the termination of the life of a person who cannot be healed by medical means and who is in unbearable pain.
• Active Euthanasia: It is the injection of lethal dose of drugs or anesthetic substance to the patient by the physician after deep sedation.
• Passive Euthanasia: It is the physician's discontinuation of the patient's artificial support and medication.
• Voluntar Euthanasia: It is the euthanasia that is performed according to one's own will and desire.
• Involuntar Euthanasia: It is a form of euthanasia applied at the request of a relative against the person's own will and desire.
• Doctors are not given the right to end life, even if the patients and their relatives consent, and it is considered within the scope of the crime of willful homicide.
Identification
• The features that enable a person to be recognized, identified and distinguished from other people are called identity, and this process is called identification.
• Forensic identification is completed by showing the relatives and acquaintances (exposing the corpse) and being recognized by them, after the evaluation of various documents on the person.
• One of the most important findings used for identification is fingerprint.
• Age determination is important for identification. Used for age determination:
General view of the body
Height and weight
Teeth
Bone age
bristles
