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Recent Examples of assisted suicide
Dignitas has been involved in over 4,000 assisted suicide deaths as of 2024.
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Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
While medically assisted suicide isn’t a mainstream cause of any one political party, conversations about potential legislation happen more in progressive circles and often in connection with arguments about bodily autonomy.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
Continue reading … WORLDWIDE AGENDA – Investigation reveals multimillion-dollar lobby pushing assisted suicide to minors.
—FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
But assisted suicide is anything but compassionate for vulnerable people, like the tragic story of my friend with anorexia, Jane Allen, which shows how assisted suicide laws threaten the lives of the young and curable.
—Matt Vallière, Denver Post, 2 Oct. 2025
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Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
While medically assisted suicide isn’t a mainstream cause of any one political party, conversations about potential legislation happen more in progressive circles and often in connection with arguments about bodily autonomy.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
Continue reading … WORLDWIDE AGENDA – Investigation reveals multimillion-dollar lobby pushing assisted suicide to minors.
—FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
But assisted suicide is anything but compassionate for vulnerable people, like the tragic story of my friend with anorexia, Jane Allen, which shows how assisted suicide laws threaten the lives of the young and curable.
—Matt Vallière, Denver Post, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assisted suicide
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Kelson teaches Spike how to grow beyond his parents, giving Isla a mercy killing and allowing Spike to place her skull on the top of the structure.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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While this was a funeral rite for some in the Roman period, the researchers think the man was decapitated as a mercy killing after the lion bite.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2025
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Sometimes, euthanasia is the most loving decision.—
David L. Weimer,
The Conversation,
23 Jan. 2026
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Canada’s government monopoly on the health care system can create perverse incentives for physicians and caseworkers to promote euthanasia instead of chronic treatment and support.—
Dr. Jeffrey Singer,
New York Daily News,
3 Jan. 2026
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Koren met with Rani’s physician and quickly ruled out foul play.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Police said there are no signs of trauma and foul play is not suspected.—
Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
25 Jan. 2026
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The number of killings investigated last year fell to 67, with 57 of those categorized as murders — excluding cases such as justifiable homicides — a total not seen since 1967, according to data compiled by this news organization.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Jackson, who famously won an acquittal in the murder trial of Karen Read and represented disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, did not explain his decision to withdraw from the case.—
Matt Gutman,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Assisted suicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assisted%20suicide. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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