How to Use assisted suicide in a Sentence

assisted suicide

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• Australia bans assisted suicide, so Goodall flew from his home in Perth to Switzerland, where the practice is legal.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 9 May 2018
• The 104-year-old Australian scientist made headlines last week with his plan to die by assisted suicide in Switzerland.
  — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2018
• The better the delivery of palliative and hospice care, the less the public is likely to support assisted suicide.
  — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 27 Sep. 2019
• But the Sisters of St. Martha, the order of Catholic nuns who used to operate the hospital, said in a statement that assisted suicides will not take place at the hospital itself.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 23 Sep. 2019
• He was transferred to a hospital in Belgium, where his father lived, and which allows assisted suicide.
  — Elizabeth Llorente | Fox News, Fox News, 25 May 2018
• Defense lawyers have called Janice Hunter’s death a matter of euthanasia or assisted suicide, and argued for a sentence that doesn't include prison time.
  — Menelaos Hadjicostis, ajc, 21 Mar. 2023
• The Netherlands and Belgium, like Canada, allow both euthanasia and assisted suicide and have seen numbers rise more slowly.
  — Katharina Buchholz, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• The new law offers two voluntary methods of permitting a person to end their life, which are euthanasia and assisted suicide.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2021
• Colorado voters legalized assisted suicide by passing the End of Life Options Act in 2016.
  — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• The Catholic Church opposes assisted suicide as a violation of divine law.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 23 Sep. 2019
• Euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal in only a handful of countries.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
• Hawaii became the sixth state to legalize medically assisted suicide in April when Gov. David Ige signed the legislation into law.
  — Audrey McAvoy, The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018
• An assisted suicide—in which a doctor prescribes a lethal cocktail that the patient self-administers under circumstances of his own choosing—is still a suicide.
  — Michel Houellebecq, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
• In Maryland, lawmakers in the House of Delegates passed a bill that would have legalized medically assisted suicide, but the measure was defeated in the state Senate.
  — Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• Last year, Victoria became the first state in the country to legalize assisted suicide but the law only applies to terminally ill patients and won't be an option until mid-2019.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 2 May 2018
• Disability advocates already must fight harder against a system that views their lives as worth less than others, and assisted suicide firmly places a target on their backs.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 May 2024
• Many patients who seek medical aid in dying feel deeply offended when the medical practice is referred to as suicide or assisted suicide.
  — Ginger Fairchild, CNN, 3 Sep. 2022
• The charges, at least initially, are attempted assisted suicide and assault and battery (presumably with a dangerous weapon).
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• This was the state, after all, that pioneered medically assisted suicide in America when its Death with Dignity Act took effect in 1997.
  — Rob Kuznia, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
• The law that was introduced to stop organized assisted suicide passed Parliament with a solid majority in 2015.
  — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• His parliament legalised assisted suicide, and cannabis for recreational use.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• Colorado Denver: The firing of a doctor who wanted to prescribe life-ending drugs to a man suffering from incurable cancer has touched off a legal fight testing the state’s medically assisted suicide law.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2019
• Australia prohibits assisted suicide, but the state of Victoria legalized it last year, allowing terminally ill patients to start ending their lives in 2019.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 May 2018
• Her party had previously ruled out a coalition with the Christian Union because of their opposing stances on issues including euthanasia and assisted suicide.
  — Mike Corder, ajc, 28 Sep. 2021
• Montana does not have a law permitting medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
  — Mike Catalini, The Seattle Times, 13 Apr. 2019
• Legislation being pushed throughout the country promotes assisted suicide for cases like mine.
  — J.j. Hanson, WSJ, 6 July 2017
• Medically assisted suicide in Canada is only available to those who are 18 years or older, according to the Canadian government's website.
  — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2022
• Many suffer from terminal or incurable illnesses, which is also a valid reason for seeking assisted suicide in some other nations, including Belgium and the Netherlands that have an even more liberal stance.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• In comparison, in the United States assisted suicide has been enacted by popular vote or legislatures in various states.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2023
• Others express moral opposition to assisted suicide and say there are no safeguards to protect vulnerable patients from coercion.
  — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024