There are many steps people can take to control how they die. There are two main types of euthanasia: passive and active. Passive euthanasia is the withholding of potentially life-savings interventions that might keep the terminally ill or permanently comatose patient alive. Passive euthanasia involves failing to revive a patient who has signed a DNR order. A DNR order stands for a Do Not Resuscitate order, which is an advanced directive filled out by surrogates for impaired individuals, specifying that if they go into cardiac arrest, efforts should not be made to revive them. An advanced directive is any written document spelling out instructions about whether treatment should be used to prolong life if individuals become ill and cannot communicate
