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Keywords: suicide, medicide, functionalist, misery, abortionites

Death in which a physician or someone else helps a person take his or her own life.

The choice to self-abort one's life with help from one or more other persons. Popular with Functionalist Abortionites for putting the sick out of our misery when they cannot manage it alone. See also MEDICIDE. SECTION: B

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suicide committed with the assistance of a physician by a person terminally ill or in unmanageable pain.

cliffsnotes.com

suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible

wordnet.princeton.edu

This is when the person who wants to die needs help to kill themselves, asks for it and receives it

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Providing someone the means to commit suicide, such as a supply of drugs or a weapon, knowing the person will use these to end his or her life.

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death achieved with the help of another person at the deceased's request

isn.net

Assisting patient to take his or her own life by providing a prescription or medicine in a dose sufficient to cause death.

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The practice of seeking help in committing suicide; not legal in Canada.

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