physician-assisted suicide

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Noun
  • Now!, another Sundance doc about the landmark 1988 student protest that transformed accessibility rights in the U.S.; and Life After, where director Reid Davenport investigates assisted suicide laws for disabled people.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Marijuana legalization, assisted suicide, voting procedures and school curriculum are additional examples of issues where states have set their own policies.
    Claire B. Wofford, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • If the mercy killing wasn’t a big enough of a twist, the introduction of three outsiders who stumble upon the girls’ cannibalistic feast will do it.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Gamble shared that when the veterinarian came to her home to perform the euthanasia, her mother, also known as Sundae's beloved grandmother, was there to offer support.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 26 May 2025
  • So, when Ginger and her brother Juice were brought in, they were put on the euthanasia list because there simply wasn't enough space.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
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