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assisted suicide
suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible
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felo-de-se
an act of deliberate self destruction
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hara-kiri, harakiri, harikari, seppuku
ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
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suttee
the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
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physician-assisted suicide
assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician
