Synonyms of euthanasia

euthanasia

noun

as in murder

the act or practice of ending the life of someone who is very sick or injured in order to prevent any more suffering

a physician who refuses to practice euthanasia

Synonyms & Similar Words

• murder
• homicide
• execution
• slaughter
• killing
• slaying
• assisted suicide
• assassination
• mercy killing
• destruction
• physician-assisted suicide
• manslaughter
• massacre
• foul play
• blood
• butchery
• carnage
• bloodshed
• hit
• decimation
• rubout
• chance-medley
• regicide
• parricide
• matricide
• patricide
• filicide
• fratricide
• uxoricide

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of euthanasia

In 2017, the agency official in charge of bear trapping and euthanasia, Carl Lackey, accused the league and the administrators of two Facebook pages (Lake Tahoe Wall of Shame and NDoW Watch: Keeping Them Transparent) of participating in a smear campaign against him. —Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024

Similarly, Canada has seen an increase of 4.6% in deaths by euthanasia since the law was first introduced in 2016. —Callie Patteson, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024

So shelter workers put him on the euthanasia list in September. —Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024

Banning euthanasia, advocates argue, prevents those who are physically unable to end their own lives from doing so. —The Week, theweek, 10 Nov. 2024