NOUN
- suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible
How To Use assisted suicide In A Sentence
- Poenisch is leading a grass-roots campaign to persuade Michigan voters to legalize doctor-assisted suicide.
- This separation has not resulted in moral desensitisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia.
- All this can make assisted suicide seem a reasonable escape from inevitable agony.
- In December, a Montana court upheld iatric euthanasia (physician assisted suicide). Kevorkian: The Right to Die and Other 9th Amendment Freedoms
- It has decriminalized medical marijuana, legalized assisted suicide and earlier this year, began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the Portland area.
- Doctors are divided over the issue of assisted suicide.
- What worries me about assisted suicide is the emotional pressure that could potentially be put on the ill or infirm. Times, Sunday Times
- There are also concerns about a “slippery slope” leading from assisted suicide to voluntary euthanasia, and from voluntary euthanasia to nonvoluntary euthanasia. Damien Keown - Would You Help Your Parents End Their Lives?
- Trudo Lemmens, an Assoc.Prof. at UofT in both Medicine and Law, discussed the claim for legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. 2009 January : Law is Cool
- The law on assisted suicide acts as a safeguard for disabled people. Times, Sunday Times
