Sentence examples for mercy killing from inspiring English sources

'mercy killing' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used when someone voluntarily ends the life of another person out of compassion. For example, "Paul's family decided to pursue a mercy killing for him when his health dramatically deteriorated."

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mercy killing

noun

Euthanasia.

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Some would call it a mercy killing.

But she denounced mercy killing.

It was not an easy mercy killing.

Last year, a blackout might have been a mercy killing.

It took the form of a mercy killing.

He was performing what is known as a "mercy killing".

But there should be no illusions that it is anything but a mercy killing.

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Maybe American soldiers should be mercy-killing those things.

There's mercy killing--I use that sometimes.

It foresaw a "slippery slope" in which mercy-killing slid ineluctably towards involuntary euthanasia.

I personally believe it to be a mercy-killing, anyway.

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