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Free sign upThe phrase "assist to commit" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where someone is helping another person to carry out an action, often with a negative connotation.
Example: "He was accused of assisting to commit the crime."
Alternatives: "aid in committing" or "help to carry out".
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Others described an unsettling mismatch between the reality and what they had imagined as the type of person they would assist to commit suicide: "I kind of imagined that if I had been asked it would be by somebody that was already at the state of being in pain and feeling like they were a burden.
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All four defendants have denied charges of encouraging or assisting others to commit computer offenses and fraud.
It specifically enables prosecution of the leaders of a criminal organisation for having ordered or assisted others to commit crimes.
Martin's lawyers says that the DPP's guidelines should be rewritten because they interfere with his article 8 rights and make the consequences of a person encouraging or assisting him to commit suicide "insufficiently foreseeable".
Therefore Britain could be assisting America to commit an act of aggression under the UN Charter, which could risk a major nuclear disaster, and doing so supposedly to prevent nuclear proliferation, with the real motive of making it possible for us to continue to break the NPT in alliance with America.
An individual who assists another to commit suicide must show that they did not act for 'self serving ends'.
In September 1993, the Supreme Court of Canada decided on the petition by Sue Rodriguez – a terminally ill patient in advanced stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – to declare invalid section 241 (b) of the Criminal Code which criminalizes assisting people to commit suicide.
Ali has also been charged with intending, during the same period, to assist another person to commit acts of terrorism.
In a rather forlorn attempt to control the detainees' future behavior, each of those released is asked to sign a form that promises, among other things, that he "will not affiliate himself with al Qaeda or its Taliban supporters" and he "will not engage in, assist, or conspire to commit any acts of terrorism".
(One project is a study of how those who assist loved ones to commit suicide pass the time while waiting for them to do it; a husband goes up in a balloon to see if he can spot his wife's soul rising).
But when the question is whether physicians should be able to "assist the patient to commit suicide," support dropped to 58percentt.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com