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mercy killing

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mercy killing
n.
Euthanasia.
mercy killing
n
(Medicine) another term for euthanasia
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Noun1.mercy killing - the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)mercy killing - the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)
euthanasia
kill, putting to death, killing - the act of terminating a life
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mercy killing n → eutanasia
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Byline: ANI Washington, Apr 15 (ANI): Late Jade Goody had asked for mercy killing injection to put her out of pain, it has been revealed.
Jade Goody 'pleaded for mercy killing' by Asian News International
Powel claimed he had carried out a mercy killing on his sick wife - but police disputed his version of events.
OAP, 88, killed wife in bed by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Stephan Letter, 27, may face life if the Bavarian state court in Kempten convicts him on 16 counts of murder, 12 of manslaughter and one mercy killing at the hospital in Sonthofen, in the Bavarian Alps, between February 2003 and July 2004.
IN BRIEF: Nurse on trial over deaths of 29 patients by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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