assisted suicide

assisted suicide (countable and uncountable, plural assisted suicides)

1. A suicide with the assistance of another individual; especially the suicide of a terminally ill person with the assistance of a physician.
   • 2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic‎:

     It was daring of Lena Dunham, the show’s writer and creator, to introduce this particular plot twist. Assisted suicide is one of the subjects that American television shows steadily avoid.

• assisted dying