noun
suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible
• Hypernyms: ↑suicide, ↑self-destruction, ↑self-annihilation
• Hyponyms: ↑physician-assisted suicide
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noun, pl ⋯ -cides
: suicide with help from another person (such as a doctor) to end suffering from severe physical illness
[count]
a doctor who has been involved in several assisted suicides
[noncount]
an opponent of assisted suicide
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the act of a person killing himself/herself with the help of sb such as a doctor, especially because he/she is suffering from a disease that has no cure
Useful english dictionary. 2012.