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Active euthanasia

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euthanasianounThe practice of intentionally killing a human being or animal in a humane way, especially in order to end suffering.
mercy killingnounActive euthanasia.
lethal injectionnounA means of execution or of euthanasia in which a person is injected with a fatal dose of drugs.
deathmakingnoun(social sciences) The process of causing individuals to die, as by withdrawing health care, carrying out abortions, etc.
self-deathnoun(euphemistic) Suicide.
electrothanasianoun(archaic, rare) execution by electricity
autocidenounAn act of suicide committed by crashing a car.
senicidenounThe killing of an elderly person.
death kitnoun(informal, slang) A collection of tools or weapons used in the preparation of a homicide.
feticidenoun(dysphemistic) The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.
suicidenoun(uncountable) The act of intentionally killing oneself.
needlenounA long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
thanatocracynounThe carrying out of mass and organized killing as an official policy of a state.
aborticidenounAn agent responsible for an abortion (the destruction of a fetus); abortifacient.
equicidenounThe killing of a horse.
killverb(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
humanicidenounThe destruction of the human race.
death penaltynoun(law) A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.
deathnounThe cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
asinicidenounThe killing (including by self) of an ass or donkey.

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