assisted suicide

American  

1. suicide facilitated by another person, especially a physician, who organizes the logistics of the suicide, as by providing the necessary quantities of a poison.

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Etymology

Origin of assisted suicide

1975–80

Example Sentences

However, another poll commissioned this year by campaign group Not Dead Yet UK found that 69% agreed Holyrood should prioritise improving access to care for disabled people before introducing "assisted suicide".

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

"While the term assisted dying is used my many to soften the reality we are actually talking about assisted suicide," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Newsom’s mother, Tessie Newsom, ended her life in 2002 at age 55 through assisted suicide after a long fight with breast cancer.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

There is a rising generation that rejects the inhumane logic of assisted suicide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

The bill allows assisted suicide for adult Uruguayan citizens or residents who are mentally competent and in the terminal stage of an incurable disease that causes them suffering.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Related Words

• assisted dying