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Euthanasia

Euˊtha-na′si-a

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK];

εὖ

well + [GREEK] death, [GREEK], [GREEK], to die: cf. F.

euthanasie

.]

1.

An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.

“An euthanasia of all thought.”

Hazlitt.