HyperDic: assisted_suicide

English > 1 sense of the expression *assisted suicide*:
NOUN	act	assisted suicide	suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible

English > *assisted suicide*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible.
Narrower	physician-assisted suicide	assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician
Broader	suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation	The act of killing yourself