assisted dying en · NOUN
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(uncountable) The administration of medical procedures to hasten an individual's death; a legal form of assisted suicide.
I finished ECT in August 2020, and after a period of accepting there was no more treatment, I applied for assisted dying in December that year. It’s a long and complicated process. It’s not like you ask for assisted dying on a Monday and you’re dead by Friday.
2024 May 16, Harriet Sherwood, quoting Zoraya ter Beek, “Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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da assisteret død (Translations) · ca mort assistida (Translations) · pl wspomagane umieranie (Translations) · it morte assistita (Translations) · nb assistert død (Translations) · pt morte assistida (Translations) · fr mort assistée (Translations) · gl morte asistida (Translations) · es muerte asistida (Translations) · de Sterbehilfe (Translations)