Noun
assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician
Source: WordNetPatients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. Ezekiel Emanuel
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago. Ezekiel Emanuel
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. Ezekiel Emanuel