assisted suicide

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

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Questions about assisted suicide

What does assisted suicide mean?

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

Is assisted suicide a common word?

assisted suicide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.