| 单词 | doctor-assisted suicide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdoctor-assisted suicide doctor-assisted suicide n. the process by which a person who is terminally ill or suffering from an incurable condition voluntarily ends his or her life with the assistance of a doctor (whose role is typically to provide a lethal dose of a drug at the explicit request of the mentally competent patient); = physician-assisted suicide n. at physician n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [noun] > types of sati1806 satiism1828 hara-kiri1856 junshi1871 seppuku1871 ritual suicide1903 murder-suicide1904 autocide1923 mass suicide1937 doctor-assisted suicide1975 self-deliverance1975 self-deliveration1975 assisted suicide1976 suicide by cop1986 bullycide2001 1975 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 16 Sept. 17/5 He clarifies comprehensively and point by point your right to refuse lifesaving treatment and, in special circumstances, even your right to doctor-assisted suicide. 1998 D. C. Thomasma et al. Asking to Die iii. i. 487 Oregon became the first state in the U.S. (in November, 1994) to legalize doctor-assisted suicide by providing that mentally competent adults with fewer than six months to live can request from their doctors lethal doses of oral medication. 2015 Sunday Times 7 June 14/2 She decided on a pre-emptive doctor-assisted suicide in order to avoid any further irreversible suffering. < as lemmas |
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