"euthanasiac" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: euthanasiacs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} euthanasiac (plural euthanasiacs)
  1. A person that supports or aids any procedure related to euthanasia
    Sense id: en-euthanasiac-en-noun-st~KDH-N Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1995 Louis Moore, Life at Risk: The Crises in Medical Ethics - Page 190",
          "text": "Never mind that these euthanasiacs are spiritually vacant. I think you can make the term \"dignity\" stick. Whatever happened to those guys who, knowing they only had a short time left, determined to milk life for all it was worth?"
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          "ref": "2002 Paul Ramsey, The Patient as Person: Explorations in Medical Ethics - Page 155",
          "text": "But it is in the face of divine charity seeking always to save life that it cannot be maintained, and so Earth's own view is at the opposite pole from euthanasiacs who are allied with him in ridiculing what he rejects."
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