assisted dying

noun

assisted dying

noun

1

The administration of medical procedures to hasten an individual's death; a legal form of assisted suicide.

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.2024 May 16, Harriet Sherwood, quoting Zoraya ter Beek, “Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Derived terms: VAD
Hyponyms: assisted suicide, euthanasia

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