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
  • 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
  • Colombia is a majority Catholic nation, and church teaching opposes both assisted suicide and euthanasia.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Ten states allow medically assisted suicide but before Vermont changed its law only one state - Oregon - allowed non-residents to do it, by not enforcing the residency requirement as part of a court settlement.
    — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024

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