when a doctor or someone else helps a person who is very ill to kill themselves in order to end their suffering 辅助自杀 → euthanasia
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assisted suicide• Even so, she said, many of the people who come to the hospice ask about assisted suicide.• The author imagined assisted suicide to be a heavily regulated practice, to prevent abuse.• All this can make assisted suicide seem a reasonable escape from inevitable agony.• Doctors are divided over the issue of assisted suicide.