assisted dying

English

Noun

assisted dying (uncountable)

1. The administration of medical procedures to hasten an individual's death; a legal form of assisted suicide.
   • 2024 May 16, Harriet Sherwood, quoting Zoraya ter Beek, “Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     I finished ECT in August 2020, and after a period of accepting there was no more treatment, I applied for assisted dying in December that year. It’s a long and complicated process. It’s not like you ask for assisted dying on a Monday and you’re dead by Friday.

Hyponyms

• assisted suicide
• euthanasia

Translations

Translations

• Bokmål: assistert død
• Catalan: mort assistida
• Danish: assisteret død
• French: mort assistée
• Galician: morte asistida
• German: Sterbehilfe (de) f
• Italian: morte assistita
• Portuguese: morte assistida
• Spanish: muerte asistida