- doctor-assisted suicide
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noun
active euthanasia, euthanasia, medically assisted suicide, mercy killing, physician-assisted suicide
associated concepts: passive euthanasia
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
doctor-assisted suicide
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