assisted suicide

English Thesaurus

1. suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible (noun.act)

hypernym	:	self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide,
definition	:	the act of killing yourself (noun.act)

hyponym	:	physician-assisted suicide,
definition	:	assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician (noun.act)