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Euthanasia   /jˌuθənˈeɪʒə/  /jˌuθənˈeɪʒjə/   Listen
Euthanasia

noun
1.
The act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness).  Synonym: mercy killing.





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"Euthanasia" Quotes from Famous Books



... lessons, she got next month enough money to buy a shawl, and a bonnet, too—nay, by great ingenuity, another bonnet for Johanna—Hilary could have danced and sang—sang, in the gladness and relief of her heart, the glorious euthanasia of poverty. ...
— Mistress and Maid • Dinah Craik (aka: Miss Mulock)
... 8 Wieland's Euthanasia expresses disbelief in the preservation of personality and consciousness after death. The same ground had been taken in the work published anonymously at Halle in 1775, Plato and Leibnitz jenseits des Styx. See, on the other side of the question, ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger


Words linked to "Euthanasia" :   putting to death, kill, killing


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