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Assisted suicide

LC control no.sh 91004385
LC classificationR726
Topical headingAssisted suicide
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Variant(s)Assisted death (Assisted suicide)
Assisted dying (Assisted suicide)
Death, Assisted (Assisted suicide)
Doctor-assisted suicide
Dying, Assisted (Assisted suicide)
MAID (Medical assistance in dying)
Medical assistance in dying
Patient-directed death
Patient-directed dying
Physician-assisted suicide
See alsoSuicide
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Euthanasia
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Found inWork cat.: Humphry, D. Final exit, 1991 (assisted suicide)
NEXIS (assisted suicide; physician-assisted suicide; doctor-assisted suicide)
MEDLINE (89-91)
Google search, Aug. 3, 2007 (assisted dying; assisted death - these terms are used in reference to both assisted suicide and euthanasia; patient-directed death; patient-directed dying)
Human dignity and assisted death, [2018]
Tiedemann, M. Assisted dying in Canada after Carter v. Canada, 2019
The state of knowledge on medical assistance in dying for mature minors, [2018]: title page (the Expert Panel Working Group on MAID for Mature Minors)
Voluntary euthanasia and assisted dying, 2020
Stavrianakis, A. Leaving, [2020]: title page (a narrative of assisted suicide)
Canada. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Subject matter of Bill C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), 2021
Hannig, A. The day I die, [2022]: title page (the untold story of assisted dying in America)
Marmoreo, J. The last doctor, 2022: title page (lessons in living from the front lines of medical assistance in dying)
Merriam-Webster, online, viewed 5 January 2023: assisted suicide (noun; suicide committed by someone with assistance from another person, especially physician-assisted suicide; also assisted death)
Oxford English dictionary, online, viewed 5 January 2023: assisted (assisted suicide: n. suicide effected with the assistance of another person, esp. the taking of lethal drugs, provided by a doctor for the purpose, by a patient considered to be incurable; assisted dying: n. the process by which a person who is terminally ill or suffering from an incurable condition voluntarily ends his or her life with the assistance of another person (typically a doctor who provides lethal drugs)--in later use sometimes distinguished from assisted suicide in being restricted to terminally ill adults meeting specific criteria, with euthanasia (n. 3) often used in similar contexts but does not always imply a voluntary action on the part of the person who dies; assisted death: n. the practice or an instance of euthanasia or assisted suicide)
Concise medical dictionary, 2020: assisted suicide (the act of helping a patient to commit suicide by giving them the means (e.g. drugs) to do so)
Not found inHennepin; IAC