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by soVeryTired 1280 days ago
The BMJ draws a distinction between the terms assisted dying, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. It depends on the health of the person dying, and who’s administering the drugs:

https://www.bmj.com/assisted-dying

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I understand that assisted suicide is inaccurate, but assisted dying sounds like a too broadly applicable euphemism. We might say we assist criminals on death row with dying, for instance. However, a euphemism is necessary in these circumstances because the obvious non-euphemistic way of expressing it is "killing the patient' or maybe the more gentle "consensual execution."