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physician-assisted suicide
physician-assisted suicide Physician-assisted suicide is an end-of-life practice in which a physician is involved in a person’s suicide.
Physician-assisted suicide is an end-of-life practice in which a physician is involved in a person’s suicide. In the source, it is treated as legally distinct from a patient’s refusal of nutrition and fluids that may hasten death, and as a subject of possible legal penalties or legalization.