Euthanasia

Definitions

1. The practice of intentionally killing a human being or animal in a humane way, especially in order to end suffering.
   uncountable, usually
2. The practice of killing a human being who is considered a liability to society, especially a disabled person.
   Nazism, especially, euphemistic, uncountable, usually
3. An easy death, or the means to bring about such a death.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

16 more languages

العربيةقتل رحيمموت الرحمة

Bosanskieutanazijaеутаназија

Češtinaeutanázie

Ελληνικάευθανασία

Suomiarmokuolemaarmomurhaeutanasiakuolinapu+ 1 more

Galegoeutanasia

עבריתהמתת חסד

हिन्दीइच्छामृत्यु

Hrvatskieutanazijaеутаназија

한국어안락사

Polskieutanazja

Српскиeutanazijaеутаназија

Svenskaeutanasi

Türkçeötanazi

Українськаевтаназія

Tiếng Việtan tử

Examples

“Euthanasia is the most difficult part of a veterinarian's job.”

“Nevertheless, as Henry Friedlander pointed out years ago, it was not Jews but mentally and physically disabled people who became targets of the first large-scale, systematic killings in Nazi Germany, under the euphemistically labelled “Euthanasia Program⟳.””

“It would in time, it is to be hoped, effect a quiet euthanasia of the heresies of bigotry and fanaticism which have⟳ so long triumphed over human reason⟳, and so generally and deeply afflicted mankind; but this work⟳ is to be begun by winnowing the grain from the chaff of the historians of his life.”

“Had they understood their place⟳, and what to do in it, this French Revolution, which went forth explosively in years and in months, might have⟳ spread⟳ itself over generations; and not a torture-death but a quiet euthanasia have⟳ been provided for many things.”

“This purely painless process⟳, this descent by oblivious trance into oblivion, this natural physical death, is the true euthanasia; and it is the duty of those we call⟳ physicians to secure for man such good health as shall bear⟳ him in activity and happiness onward in his course to this goal. For euthanasia, though it be open⟳ to every one born of every race⟳, is not to be had by any save⟳ through obedience to those laws which it is the mission of the physician to learn⟳, to teach⟳, and to enforce. Euthanasia is the sequel of health, the happy death engrafted on the perfect life.”

“For myself I could hold⟳ it in my account with God to find⟳ such an euthanasia for you, even at this moment if it were best.”

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