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Help given to a person to end their own life. In the Dignity in Dying campaign, this concerns medically assisted dying for terminally ill adults with mental capacity and legal safeguards.

Assisted dying involves helping a person to end their own life. Neither should be confused with providing pain relief or good end-of-life care: relieving symptoms does not itself mean deliberately ending life.

Helping someone to end their own life. In campaigning contexts, the term often refers to medically assisted death under specified conditions.

Distinguish euthanasia from assisted dying rather than treating the terms as interchangeable.

Distinguish abortion from infanticide, and euthanasia from assisted dying or withdrawing futile treatment.

Do not assume that every Humanist supports assisted dying or that Dignity in Dying campaigns for every form of euthanasia.

Helping a person to end their own life, usually in the context of serious illness. Campaigns differ over who should qualify and what safeguards should apply.

In Dignity in Dying’s campaign, medical assistance enabling a terminally ill, mentally competent adult to end their own life by voluntarily self-administering prescribed life-ending medication.

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