"assisted suicide" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: assisted suicides [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Suicide Hypernyms: assisted dying Translations (suicide with the help of another person): assistert selvmord (Bokmål), suïcidi assistit [masculine] (Catalan), 輔助自殺 (Chinese Mandarin), 辅助自杀 (fǔzhù zìshā) (Chinese Mandarin), 協助自殺 (Chinese Mandarin), 协助自杀 (xiézhù zìshā) (Chinese Mandarin), assisteret selvmord [common-gender] (Danish), avustettu itsemurha (Finnish), suicide assisté [masculine] (French), assistierter Suizid [masculine] (German), υποβοηθούμενη αυτοκτονία (ypovoïthoúmeni aftoktonía) [feminine] (Greek), suicidio assistito [masculine] (Italian), suicídio assistido [masculine] (Portuguese), suicidio asistido [masculine] (Spanish)

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