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Assisted Suicide

Definition: Assisted Suicide

Assisted Suicide

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Assisted Suicide

Synonym: Suicide. (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Assisted Suicide

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Books

  • Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (Monograph Published Simultaneously As the Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain & Symptom Control , Vol) (reference)

  • Lethal Judgments: Assisted Suicide and American Law (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) (reference)

  • Life's Worth: The Case Against Assisted Suicide (Horizons in Bioethics Series,) (reference)

  • Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients and Assisted Suicide (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Death As A Salesman: What's Wrong with Assisted Suicide (reference)

  • Physician Assisted Suicide (reference)

  • Landmark Trials of Modern Ethics-Michigan v. Kevorkian: The Ethics of Assisted Suicide (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Assisted Suicide

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Health

Closely related to this topic is the whole role of assisted suicide for people who fear living without their cognitive abilities and the potential for developing programs more akin to hospices, which focus exclusively on improving the quality of life of people with terminal conditions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Misspellings: Assisted Suicide

Misspellings

"Assisted Suicide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: assisted sucide. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Assisted Suicide

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-i-i-i-s-s-s-s-t-u"

-4 letters: assiduities.

-5 letters: decussated, decussates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Assisted Suicide


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 73 73 69 73 74 65 64      53 75 69 63 69 64 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01010011 01110101 01101001 01100011 01101001 01100100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#115 &#115 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#100 &#32 &#83 &#117 &#105 &#99 &#105 &#100 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0073 0073 0069 0073 0074 0065 0064      0053 0075 0069 0063 0069 0064 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3585857585867170253877569757071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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