assisted suicide

1. suicide facilitated by another person, especially a physician, who organizes the logistics of the suicide, as by providing the necessary quantities of a poison. medicide.

Word History and Origins

Origin of assisted suicide¹

1975–80

Example Sentences

They acknowledged such incidents would be "relatively rare" but said it would be "simply not possible to avoid such scenarios if assisted suicide were to be made legal".

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The Netherlands, for example, has legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia.

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He argued improving end-of-life care would ease people's fears of a painful death and make many cases of assisted suicide unnecessary.

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Better end-of-life care would ease people’s fears of a painful death, making many cases of assisted suicide unnecessary, he said.

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It is legal in fewer places than assisted dying or assisted suicide and patients do not necessarily have to be terminally ill, external.

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Related Words

• assisted dying