Assisted Suicide

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
AS
Pronunciation
/əˈsɪstɪd ˈsuɪˌsaɪd/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. It is a strategy of assisted suicide, and one that is extremely dangerous and irresponsible.
  2. Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland provided the helper doesn't personally benefit from a patient's death.
  3. I believe that blindly opposing assisted suicide does no one a service.
  4. Television audiences have been shown an autopsy, carried out by the controversial German anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens, and an on-screen assisted suicide.
  5. Voters in Zurich, Switzerland, overwhelmingly rejected proposed bans on assisted suicide and " suicide tourism ", local media reported.

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