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ASSISTED SUICIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("assisted suicide" is a kind of...):
self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide (the act of killing yourself)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assisted suicide"):
physician-assisted suicide (assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician)
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