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suicide tourism

suicide tourism noun: travel for the purpose of committing suicide, as for example to a country where assisted suicide is legal.

Noun

suicide tourism (uncountable)

  1. Travel for the purpose of committing suicide, as for example to a country where assisted suicide is legal.
    • ‘In Venice they have suicide tourism,’ my father had once said. ‘People who want to commit suicide make a special trip to Venice and then at five o'clock in the morning they put a bullet through their heads on the Piazza San Marco.’2005, Margot Bettauer Dembo, transl., Nothing But Ghosts, Fourth Estate, translation of Nichts als Gespenster by Judith Hermann, →ISBN
    • The Swiss researchers write that “the six right-to-die organizations assist in approximately 600 cases of suicide per year; some 150 to 200 of which are suicide tourists,” or people coming to Switzerland seeking aid-in-dying. The study looks at the data on suicide tourism in the greater Zurich area...2014 August 27, Julie Beck, “'Going to Switzerland' Is a Euphemism for Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic

Questions about suicide tourism

What does suicide tourism mean?
Suicide tourism means travel for the purpose of committing suicide, as for example to a country where assisted suicide is legal.
What part of speech is suicide tourism?
Suicide tourism is a noun.

Words near suicide tourism in the dictionary

  1. suicide squeeze
  2. suicide squeezes
  3. Suicide Sunday
  4. Suicide Sundays
  5. suicide suspension
  6. suicide tourism
  7. suicide tourist
  8. suicide tourists
  9. suicide tree
  10. suicide trees
  11. suicide Tuesday

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