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assisted suicide

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++asˌsisted ˈsuicide noun [countable, uncountable]  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 suicideEven 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.
asˌsisted ˈsuicide nounChineseSyllable
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assisted suicide
asˌsisted ˈsuicide noun [uncountable and countable]
when a doctor or someone else helps a person who is very ill to kill themselves in order to end their suffering ⇨ euthanasia


assisted suicideBrE /əˌsɪstɪd ˈsuːɪsaɪd/ 🔊, /əˌsɪstɪd ˈsjuːɪsaɪd/ 🔊NAmE /əˌsɪstɪd ˈsuːɪsaɪd/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] the act of a person killing himself/herself with the help of sb such as a doctor, especially because he/she is suffering from a disease that has no cure (假医生等他人之手的)辅助自杀,协助自杀