assisted suicide
Definition of assisted suicide
: suicide committed by someone with assistance from another person; especially : physician-assisted suicide
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Examples of assisted suicide in a Sentence
a doctor who has been involved in several assisted suicides
an opponent of assisted suicide
First Known Use of assisted suicide
1884
ASSISTED SUICIDE Defined for English Language Learners
assisted suicide
Definition of assisted suicide for English Language Learners
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: suicide with help from another person (such as a doctor) to end suffering from severe physical illness
Medical Dictionary
assisted suicide
assisted death
Medical Definition of assisted suicide
: 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), 5 Oct. 1997; 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, 14 Nov. 1999
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assisted suicide
Legal Definition of assisted suicide
: suicide committed by someone with assistance from another person; especially : physician-assisted suicide
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