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assisted suicide

NOUN
dying facilitated by another
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However, another poll commissioned this year by campaign group Not Dead Yet UK found that 69% agreed Holyrood should prioritise improving access to care for disabled people before introducing "assisted suicide".

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Canada, which shares a border with New York, long ago abandoned the terminal-illness requirement for requesting assisted suicide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Newsom’s mother, Tessie Newsom, ended her life in 2002 at age 55 through assisted suicide after a long fight with breast cancer.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Although assisted suicide passed both houses of the state Legislature this year, the margins were small and the whole thing took nearly a decade to come to a vote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

The bill allows assisted suicide for adult Uruguayan citizens or residents who are mentally competent and in the terminal stage of an incurable disease that causes them suffering.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025