For example, the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics defines euthanasia as "a deliberate intervention undertaken... which ends a life, to relieve intractable suffering". While in the Netherlands and Flanders it is known as “death by a doctor at the request of a patient”. Although these countries may have a different way of defining euthanasia, the intentions are always the same, which is to help those who suffer have the ability to move forward painlessly. However, the word itself has had different meanings depending on usage. The first experience of these words belongs to the historian Suetonius, who described how the emperor Augustus died quickly in the arms of his wife, experiencing the euthanasia he desired. Thus giving the implication of a peaceful death. The word was first used in a medical context by Francis Bacon in the 17th century, referring to it as an easy, painless and happy death in which "the doctor's responsibility is to relieve the sufferings of the body". In current usage it can be defined as “the painless induction of rapid death”. Everyone argues that euthanasia is a simpler and more peaceful way of choosing when and how