euthanasia

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Virtually no one would object to a tightly regulated and closely monitored system being created to ensure that legalizing assisted suicide does not lead to involuntary euthanasia, which is murder.

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  1. noun The act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment.

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  • Virtually no one would object to a tightly regulated and closely monitored system being created to ensure that legalizing assisted suicide does not lead to involuntary euthanasia, which is murder. —  The Daily Iowan - Online Edition
  • The word euthanasia comes from the Greek language and literally means "good or happy death" —  Reasons to Believe -
  • Andee's lessons in school in their CLE class (Christian Living Education) now evolves under sensitive topics like this -- euthanasia, genocide, abortion, mutilation, subhuman living conditions, drug abuse, to name a few. —  My Scratch Pad
  • Give me but gentle death: euthanasia, euthanasia, that is all I implore. '" —  The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899
  • When everyone has access to euthanasia, you don't take care of it or take responsibility for it, they'll say, and sooner or later the euthanasia will be so degraded and corrupted by misuse that it will amount to hitting old ladies with mittens and nerfballs or else trying to set them on fire withice water. —  Saint Gasoline
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  1. Greek euthanasiā, a good death : eu-, eu- + thanatos, death.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek εὐθανασία, an easy, happy death, from εὐθάνατος, dying easily or happily, from εὐ, well, + θάνατος, death.
 

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