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Recent Examples of assisted suicide
Marijuana legalization, assisted suicide, voting procedures and school curriculum are additional examples of issues where states have set their own policies.
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Claire B. Wofford, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
Canada under Trudeau expanded the culture of death to adults as well, legalizing medically assisted suicide in 2016 and then expanding the situations in which it is permitted in 2021.
—The Editors, National Review, 7 Jan. 2025
According to the report, the woman had been considering assisted suicide for two years, since being diagnosed with skull base osteomyelitis.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
The practice of doctor assisted suicide is growing in the west.
—Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Claire B. Wofford, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
Canada under Trudeau expanded the culture of death to adults as well, legalizing medically assisted suicide in 2016 and then expanding the situations in which it is permitted in 2021.
—The Editors, National Review, 7 Jan. 2025
According to the report, the woman had been considering assisted suicide for two years, since being diagnosed with skull base osteomyelitis.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
The practice of doctor assisted suicide is growing in the west.
—Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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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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She’s cleared for euthanasia and scheduled to go to heaven in less than 48 hours.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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Some rescues, however, urge people not to turn to shelters because of overcrowding and high euthanasia rates.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
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Ge’s death was determined to be a suicide after investigators turned up a handwritten note but found no evidence of foul play, ABC News reported, citing Pennsylvania State Police.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
7 Aug. 2025
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No further search efforts are planned for Fish Lake, and the circumstances of White's death remain officially undetermined with no evidence of foul play.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Aug. 2025
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More than a month after the parents’ deaths, deputies issued a warrant for Leman’s arrest on murder charges.—
Mike Stunson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Aug. 2025
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Jamison Fisher, 50, has been indicted on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of concealment of a homicidal death in the murder of Trudy Appleby, authorities in Moline, Illinois, said during a news conference on Thursday, Aug. 14.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Assisted suicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assisted%20suicide. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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