mercy death

mercy death
   the murder of a patient thought to be terminally ill
   And as mercy killing:
    Mercy death suspected in hospital. (headline in Daily Telegraph, 30 December 1994)
   Also favoured by the Nazis:
    ... the Gestapo is now systematically bumping off the mentally deficient people... the Nazis call them 'mercy deaths'. (Shirer, 1984)

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