euthanasia

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The practice of intentionally killing a human being or animal in a humane way, especially in order to end suffering.

   “Euthanasia is the most difficult part of a veterinarian's job.”

2. isim The practice of killing a human being who is considered a liability to society, especially a disabled person.

   “Nevertheless, as Henry Friedlander pointed out years ago, it was not Jews but mentally and physically disabled people who became targets of the first large-scale, systematic killings in Nazi Germany, under the euphemistically labelled “Euthanasia Program.””

3. isim An easy death, or the means to bring about such a death.

   “It would in time, it is to be hoped, effect a quiet euthanasia of the heresies of bigotry and fanaticism which have so long triumphed over human reason, and so generally and deeply afflicted mankind; but this work is to be begun by winnowing the grain from the chaff of the historians of his life.”