单词 | self-deliveration |
释义 | self-deliverationn. rare. The action or fact of a person who is terminally ill or suffering from an incurable condition voluntarily ending his or her own life; suicide viewed as a deliverance from intolerable suffering.Used by advocates of assisted dying to avoid the more negative connotations of suicide, although the term self-deliverance is more common (see self-deliverance n. 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 M. R. Barrington in M. Kohl Beneficent Euthanasia 214 Taking one's own life..would be more readily comprehended as responsible behavior if it were expressed as ‘self-deliveration’. 1988 E. W. Banister et al. Contemp. Health Issues xiv. 468 The ‘Hemlock Society’ a grass roots American movement promotes ‘self-deliveration from life’ to be legal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1975 |
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