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Descriptor English:   Suicide, Assisted 
Descriptor Spanish:   suicidio asistido 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Suicídio Assistido 
Synonyms English:   Assisted Death
Assisted Deaths
Assisted Suicide
Assisted Suicides
Death, Assisted
Deaths, Assisted
Medically Assisted Suicide
Medically Assisted Suicides
Physician Assisted Suicide
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Physician-Assisted Suicides
Suicide, Medically Assisted
Suicide, Physician-Assisted
Suicides, Assisted
Suicides, Medically Assisted
Suicides, Physician-Assisted  
Tree Number:   E02.760.905.850
F01.145.126.980.875.300
I01.880.735.856.300
N02.421.585.905.850
Definition English:   Provision (by a physician or other health professional, or by a family member or friend) of support and/or means that gives a patient the power to terminate his or her own life. (from APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed). 
See Related English:   Euthanasia
Euthanasia, Active
Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary
 
History Note English:   93 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
CL classification EC economics
ES ethics EH ethnology
HI history LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PC prevention & control PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data TD trends
Record Number:   30490 
Unique Identifier:   D017236 

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