right to die

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right to die

  1. The moral principle that a human being is entitled to end his/her own life or to undergo voluntary euthanasia.
    • 2014 August 27, Julie Beck, “'Going to Switzerland' Is a Euphemism for Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      The Swiss researchers write that “the six right-to-die organizations assist in approximately 600 cases of suicide per year; some 150 to 200 of which are suicide tourists,” or people coming to Switzerland seeking aid-in-dying.