How to Use assisted suicide in a Sentence

assisted suicide

noun
  • In addition, assisted suicide, which is right there in chapter one, was a felony in Texas.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal in only a handful of countries.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • 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 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
  • In another October motion, Routh asked the judge to imprison him in a state that allows assisted suicide.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • In 2002, the Netherlands legalised both assisted suicide and, in a world first, euthanasia.
    — The Week, theweek, 10 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Legislation being pushed throughout the country promotes assisted suicide for cases like mine.
    — J.j. Hanson, WSJ, 6 July 2017
  • The Catholic Church opposes assisted suicide as a violation of divine law.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Dignitas has been involved in over 4,000 assisted suicide deaths as of 2024.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Both organizations advocate for the right to assisted suicide.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Colombia is a majority Catholic nation, and church teaching opposes both assisted suicide and euthanasia.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The agency responsible for monitoring assisted suicides in Quebec issued a similar reminder over the summer.
    — Alexander Raikin, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Colorado voters legalized assisted suicide by passing the End of Life Options Act in 2016.
    — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2019
  • From the growth of the labor movement to high-profile sports scandals to assisted suicides and shocking true crime, news stories from Detroit have written themselves into recent American history.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
  • The cases allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and negligence.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill under a deal reached between the governor and state legislative leaders announced Wednesday.
    — Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Many of the plaintiffs suing the AI company allege psychological manipulation, wrongful death and assisted suicide, while others have filed negligence claims.
    — Alnoor Ebrahim, The Conversation, 13 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Under Swiss law, euthanasia—where a doctor actively administers a lethal drug—is banned, but assisted suicide has been allowed for decades so long as there is no selfish or profit motive and the person who has chosen to die is of sound mind and carries out the final act themselves.
    — Simon Crerar, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2025

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