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Abstract
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).
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- Death, Assisted
- Suicide, Assisted
- Assisted Death
- Assisted Deaths
- Assisted Suicides
- Deaths, Assisted
- Suicides, Assisted
- Medically Assisted Suicide
- Medically Assisted Suicides
- Physician-Assisted Suicide
- Suicide, Medically Assisted
- Suicides, Medically Assisted
- Physician Assisted Suicide
- Physician-Assisted Suicides
- Suicide, Physician-Assisted
- Suicides, Physician-Assisted
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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- Euthanasia (1976-1992)
- Suicide (1976-1992)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Assisted Suicide. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017236. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017236
- Assisted Suicide. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide
- Assisted Suicide. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q689846