Eū'tha-nā'si-ā or Eū'tha-nā'sy or Eū-thān'a-sy, n.

n. [Fr. euthanasie, Gr. εὐθανασία, from εὖ, well, and θάνατος, death, from θανεῖν, θνήσκειν, to die.] An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired; “An euthanasia of all thought.” Hazlitt.

The kindest wish of my friends is euthanasia. Arbuthnot.