right to dien.
/ˌrʌɪt tᵿ ˈdʌɪ/, U.S. /ˌraɪt tə ˈdaɪ/ Originally U.S.
Freedom (as a human right or within a given legal system) to choose the time and manner of one's death, esp. as exercised by a person suffering from a terminal or incapacitating illness, or to refuse or preclude medical treatment for such an illness. Frequently (often hyphenated) attributive.The legality of individuals' right to die is not settled in national and international law. Cf. active euthanasia n. at active adj. and n. Compounds 2, assisted suicide n. at assisted adj. Additions, living will n. at living adj. and n.1 Compounds, passive euthanasia n. at passive adj. and n. Compounds.
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right to die1893
the world > life > death > [noun] > the right to death
right to die1893
the world > life > death > [adjective] > the right to death
right to die1919
1893 N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 759 Prof. Francis W. Newman, in giving his views of ‘Euthanasia’, as they call the right to die, declares that ‘suicide is sometimes a duty’.
1919 Law Notes Aug. 96/1 ‘The right to die’ controversy, which has been accompanied with several suicides of persons who were, or believed themselves to be, suffering from incurable maladies.
1956 Time 9 Jan. 62/2 There has been too little said..of a legitimate right, a God-given right, of the dying man. That is his right to die.
1976 N.Y. Times 5 Sept. iv. 5/2 The California legislature has passed..the nation's first ‘right-to-die’ bill... The bill will permit healthy persons to sign ‘living wills’ which would order their physicians..to disconnect life-sustaining equipment if that equipment serves no other purpose than to delay the moment of death.
1978 Detroit Free Press 14 Apr. 4 b/2 Death ends right-to-die case before Ind. court can decide.
1986 N.Y. Times 24 Apr. a22/2 What she has asked the California courts for this time is not the right to die but the right to refuse medical treatment.
1996 Guardian 16 Mar. 1/1 A man who for seven years was thought to be in the same permanent unconscious state as the ‘right to die’ Hillsborough victim,..has become aware of his surroundings and is communicating with hospital staff.
2004 Guardian 15 Apr. (Life section) 5/5 Some fear that doctors are now asking society for permission to intervene to save patients whose neurological state barely differs from those in whom the right to die was established.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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