assisted suicide

English

Noun

assisted suicide (countable and uncountable, plural assisted suicides)

1. A suicide with the assistance of another individual; especially the suicide of a terminally ill person with the assistance of a physician.
   • 2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     It was daring of Lena Dunham, the show’s writer and creator, to introduce this particular plot twist. Assisted suicide is one of the subjects that American television shows steadily avoid.

Hypernyms

• assisted dying

Translations

suicide with the help of another person

• Bokmål: assistert selvmord
• Catalan: suïcidi assistit m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輔助自殺／辅助自杀 (zh) (fǔzhù zìshā), 協助自殺／协助自杀 (zh) (xiézhù zìshā)

• Danish: assisteret selvmord c
• Finnish: avustettu itsemurha
• French: suicide assisté (fr) m
• German: assistierter Suizid m
• Greek: υποβοηθούμενη αυτοκτονία f (ypovoïthoúmeni aftoktonía)
• Italian: suicidio assistito m
• Portuguese: suicídio assistido m
• Spanish: suicidio asistido m