physician-assisted suicide

NOUN
  1. assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician
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How To Use physician-assisted suicide In A Sentence

  • In 1995 Australia's Northern Territory legalized physician-assisted suicide; however, this law was struck down by the Australian Supreme Court in 1997.
  • The ethical arguments for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, advocates of euthanasia have maintained, do not apply to euthanasia only when it is voluntary; they can also be used to justify some kinds of nonvoluntary euthanasia of the incompetent. Whose Right to Die?
  • The Supreme Court upheld Oregon's law on physician-assisted suicide yesterday, ruling that the Justice Department may not punish doctors who help terminally ill patients end their lives.
  • First, the update found that beyond the roughly 3,600 cases of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia reported in a given year, there are about 1,000 instances of nonvoluntary euthanasia. Whose Right to Die?
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