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单词 physician-assisted suicide
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physician-assisted suicide
physician-assisted suicide n. originally U.S. suicide carried out with the assistance of a physician (whose role is typically to provide a lethal dose of a drug at the explicit, voluntary request of a mentally competent patient); cf. assisted suicide n. at assisted adj. Additions.
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1987 Los Angeles Times 10 Apr. v. 1/1 The intensifying discussion over a narrowly specialized aspect of euthanasia—a practice called ‘physician-assisted suicide’.
1994 J. M. Hoefler & B. E. Kamoie Deathright vi. 148 The panoply of activism forces currently at work in the nation seem to indicate that physician-assisted suicide will be a legal option in a growing number of states in the not-too-distant future.
1996 Radiologic Technol. (Nexis) 67 280 With the ethical dilemmas presented by physician-assisted suicide, patient advocates have developed a list of three criteria, all of which must be met before a physician even contemplates helping a patient commit suicide.
2001 Brit. Med. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 9 June 1376 Besides the vagaries of politics, there is something deeper that makes widespread adoption of euthanasia or physician assisted suicide unlikely and even counterproductive.
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