Assisted Suicide Definition

noun
Suicide committed with the aid of another person, sometimes a physician.
American Heritage
Suicide committed with the assistance of a physician by a person terminally ill or in unmanageable pain.
Webster's New World
Suicide undertaken with the aid of another person, sometimes a physician.
American Heritage Medicine

Suicide with the help of another person; especially suicide of a terminally ill person with the help of a physician; euthanasia.

Wiktionary
Attributive form of assisted suicide.
Assisted-suicide laws.
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Other Word Forms of Assisted Suicide

Noun

Singular:
assisted suicide
Plural:
assisted suicides

Assisted Suicide Sentence Examples

  • There should be no law change to allow assisted suicide.

  • Assisted dying Advance directives often become confused with the euthanasia and assisted dying Advance directives often become confused with the euthanasia and assisted suicide debate.

  • This covers both physician assisted suicide and the situation of giving a lethal injection to an incompetent patient.

  • Physician assisted suicide Doctors at the ARM voted to oppose physician assisted suicide Doctors at the ARM voted to oppose physician assisted suicide.

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