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UK
/jˌuːθɐnˈeɪziə/
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[ US /ˌjuθəˈneɪʒə, ˌjuθəˈneɪʒjə/ ]
[ US /ˌjuθəˈneɪʒə, ˌjuθəˈneɪʒjə/ ]
NOUN
- the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)
How To Use euthanasia In A Sentence
- She tenderly cares for her bedridden mother (euthanasia not being next on her agenda).
- This role was not excluded but fell outside the criteria of care for euthanasia.
- My position on euthanasia is actually derived from the ancient Greek one; that is, I am generally in favour of allowing it, as long as the person being euthanized is in perfectly sound mental condition, not non compos mentis, and has positively re-affirmed his decision at least three times over the period of at least a suspended period of time to allow for reconsideration (say 15 or 30 days). Matthew Yglesias » Bishops and Abortion
- He describes an idea to build a “Web site with a biblical basis” that will be a “one-stop shop for people who want to talk intelligently about life issues,” which seem to include everything from eugenics to euthanasia to abortion. American Grace
- Given that our health care system costs significantly less than the US system, and that euthanasia is in any event relatively rare, I assure you that cost cutting has nothing whatsoever to do withit. The Volokh Conspiracy » Life-Without-Parole Sentence for Under-18 Offender Unconstitutional, When the Crime Is Not Homicide
- Her appeal follows the fourth consecutive fall in the number of reported cases of euthanasia.
- This separation has not resulted in moral desensitisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia.
- In December, a Montana court upheld iatric euthanasia (physician assisted suicide). Kevorkian: The Right to Die and Other 9th Amendment Freedoms
- The author who has written off humanity despises Picasso for contorting the human figure, and our ardent misanthropist has an official in a Swiss euthanasia clinic righteously beaten up. La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq – review
- State statutes also ensure the humane euthanasia of furbearers, since they are not food animals.