Dictionary

assisted suicide en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A suicide with the assistance of another individual; especially the suicide of a terminally ill person with the assistance of a physician.
   • 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. 2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic:

Forms

Hypernyms

assisted dying

Translations (13)

cmn 協助自殺 /协助自杀 (suicide with the help of another person) · nb assistert selvmord (suicide with the help of another person) · it suicidio assistito (suicide with the help of another person) · cmn 輔助自殺 /辅助自杀 (suicide with the help of another person) · fr suicide assisté (suicide with the help of another person) · ca suïcidi assistit (suicide with the help of another person) · da assisteret selvmord (suicide with the help of another person) · es suicidio asistido (suicide with the help of another person) · fi avustettu itsemurha (suicide with the help of another person) · de assistierter Suizid (suicide with the help of another person) · el υποβοηθούμενη αυτοκτονία (suicide with the help of another person) · pl samobójstwo wspomagane (suicide with the help of another person) · pt suicídio assistido (suicide with the help of another person)