euthanasiac

English

Noun

euthanasiac (plural euthanasiacs)

1. A person that supports or aids any procedure related to euthanasia
   • 2002 J Lilly, The Last Carnival - Page 104

     .The dream of euthanasiacs. T/rey had been unable to help themselves, just couldn't stop, like men who fall vulnerably in love with the icy, contraceptive minions of the women's liberation fronts, those past mistresses of polisexual agitprop.

   • 1995 Louis Moore, Life at Risk: The Crises in Medical Ethics - Page 190

     Never mind that these euthanasiacs are spiritually vacant. I think you can make the term "dignity" stick. Whatever happened to those guys who, knowing they only had a short time left, determined to milk life for all it was worth?

   • 1949, Paul Bussard, The Catholic Digest, volume 14, page 37:

     In other words, the euthanasiacs, in pushing for voluntary euthanasia, are merely biding their time, waiting until democracies which once prized freedom can be sold the idea that benefiting humanity by ridding it of retrograde ...

   • 2002 Paul Ramsey, The Patient as Person: Explorations in Medical Ethics - Page 155

     But it is in the face of divine charity seeking always to save life that it cannot be maintained, and so Earth's own view is at the opposite pole from euthanasiacs who are allied with him in ridiculing what he rejects.