assisted suicide

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assisted suicide (countable and uncountable, plural assisted suicides)

  1. A suicide with the assistance of another individual; especially the suicide of a terminally ill person with the assistance of a physician.
    • 2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic:
      It was daring of Lena Dunham, the show’s writer and creator, to introduce this particular plot twist. Assisted suicide is one of the subjects that American television shows steadily avoid.

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