Euthanasia

Noun

 * 1) The practice of killing a human being or animal for humane reasons, especially one suffering greatly or experiencing poor quality of life.
 * Euthanasia is the most difficult part of a veterinarian's job.
 * 1)  An easy death, or the means to bring about such a death.
 * 2) * 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Folio Society 2008, p. 273:
 * For myself I could hold it in my account with God to find such an euthanasia for you, even at this moment if it were best.

Synonyms

 * mercy-killing

Derived terms

 * euthanise/euthanize
 * euthanatise/euthanatize

Thesaurus
bane, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, execution, extermination, flow of blood, gore, immolation, kill, killing, lapidation, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, natural death, poisoning, quiet end, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, shooting, slaughter, slaying, stoning, taking of life, welcome release

Etymology
First attested in 1606, from εὐθανασία:, from εὐ-: + θάνατος:

Translations

 * Albanian: vdekje e lehtë
 * Arabic: قتل رحيم
 * Azeri: evtanaziya
 * Belarusian: эўтаназія
 * Bulgarian: евтаназия
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: eutanazija
 * Czech:
 * Danish: dødshjælp
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: eŭtanazio
 * Estonian: eutanaasia
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: eutanasia
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: इच्छामृत्यु


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 安楽死, オイタナシー
 * Korean: 안락사
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:, dødshjelp
 * Persian: قتل ترحمی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: еутаназија (eutanazija)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: evtanazija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: การุณยฆาต
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: евтаназія
 * Volapük: deadiyuf
 * Welsh: ewthanasia, marwolaeth esmwyth