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单词 assisted suicide
释义

assisted suicide

noun

: suicide committed by someone with assistance from another person
especially : physician-assisted suicide

Example Sentences

a doctor who has been involved in several assisted suicides an opponent of assisted suicide
Recent Examples on the Web Ondi Timoner directs Last Flight Home, about her father’s assisted suicide. Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2022 The unprecedented case has cast light on Spain’s controversial euthanasia law, which allows patients suffering from chronic pain to undergo assisted suicide regardless of their legal standing, according to court documents. Marina Lopes, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022 The Netherlands and Belgium, like Canada, allow both euthanasia and assisted suicide and have seen numbers rise more slowly. Katharina Buchholz, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022 His wife, Mimi, said the cause was assisted suicide. Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022 While assisted suicide laws are being introduced in Austria, courts have recently overturned bans in Germany and Italy as well. Katharina Buchholz, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022 His wife, Mimi, said the cause was assisted suicide. Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022 His wife, Mimi, said the cause was assisted suicide. Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022 His wife, Mimi, said the cause was assisted suicide. Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1884, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

assisted suicide

noun

variants also assisted death
: suicide committed by someone with assistance from another person
Surveys also show assisted suicides are taking place covertly, often without a doctor's help. Mark O'Keefe, The Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon)
especially : physician-assisted suicide
Six of the 15 patients who chose assisted suicide in the act's first year had to ask more than one doctor before finding a physician who would write a lethal prescription. Barry Siegel, The Los Angeles Times

Legal Definition

assisted suicide

noun

: suicide committed by someone with assistance from another person
especially : physician-assisted suicide

assisted suicide

noun

as in mercy killing

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • mercy killing
  • physician-assisted suicide
  • foul play
  • euthanasia
  • murder
  • slaying
  • homicide
  • manslaughter
  • killing
  • slaughter
  • massacre
  • rubout
  • execution
  • carnage
  • chance-medley
  • bloodshed
  • destruction
  • assassination
  • butchery
  • blood
  • decimation
  • hit
  • filicide
  • parricide
  • fratricide
  • regicide
  • matricide
  • uxoricide
  • patricide
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