http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CB071.htm
Kevin Yuill
"The Assisted Dying Bill also demonstrates the obsession with words in this debate. In the past, it was referred to by both pro- and anti- groups as 'assisted suicide'. The phrase assisted suicide - oxymoronic, as Thomas Szazs has pointed out before on spiked - has fallen from favour, perhaps because of the spate of suicide bombings in the news, evidently replaced by the gentler 'assisted dying' (see Killing to be kind?, by Thomas Szazs). Though it removes the taint of suicide, this descriptive phrase is, if anything, more vague and obfuscating. It could, of course, cover a litany of sins and certainly does not rule out the dreaded euthanasia. One might ask, is not capital punishment also 'assisted dying'? What about murder?"
