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嘱託殺人
しょくたくさつじん
1. [n]
▶ murder at the victim's request
▶ consensual homicide
Cross references:
  ⇔ see: 2846767 承諾殺人 1. consensual homicide (propositioned by the killer)
  ⇐ see: 2846770 同意殺人【どういさつじん】 1. consensual homicide; murder with consent of the victim



History:
4. A 2023-03-09 01:09:46  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I don't know why most of the JEs have "murder by contract". It's clearly wrong.
  Diff:
@@ -12,4 +12,3 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2846767">承諾殺人・しょうだくさつじん</xref>
-<xref type="see" seq="2846770">同意殺人・どういさつじん</xref>
-<xref type="see" seq="2846770">同意殺人・どういさつじん</xref>
-<gloss>homicide at the victim's request</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="2846767">承諾殺人</xref>
+<gloss>murder at the victim's request</gloss>
+<gloss>consensual homicide</gloss>
3. A* 2023-03-04 17:18:24  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Changing to "homicide" to align with related entries and Japanese government verbiage(see 同意殺人 refs).

With regard to the unusual 3-way total xref, I really think these are explanatory in all directions.  They are all prefixed differently, so you probably won't see them in any single dictionary search, and each elucidates the nuances with the other (I think).
  Diff:
@@ -14 +14,3 @@
-<gloss>murder at the victim's request</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="2846770">同意殺人・どういさつじん</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2846770">同意殺人・どういさつじん</xref>
+<gloss>homicide at the victim's request</gloss>
2. A* 2023-03-04 16:43:40  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
嘱託殺人	3042
嘱託殺人罪

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/嘱託殺人
homicide caused at request

研究社 新和英中辞典
murder at the victim's request.

sankoku: 嘱託殺人:本人から自分を殺してくれると頼まれて殺すこと

https://fukuyama.vbest.jp/columns/criminal/g_other/7105/#:~:text=説明します。-,(1)嘱託殺人とは,が必要になります。
嘱託殺人とは、被害者が加害者に対して自身の殺害を依頼して、その依頼に基づいて加害者が被害者を殺害することをいいます(刑法202条)。

② 承諾殺人罪とは
承諾殺人罪とは、被害者の承諾を得て、被害者を殺すことをいいます(刑法202条)。
嘱託殺人も承諾殺人も被害者の同意に基づいて殺害を行うものであることから、両者をまとめて「同意殺人」と呼ぶこともあります。
しかし、嘱託殺人は、被害者からの働きかけによって殺害するという犯罪であるのに対して、承諾殺人は加害者からの殺害の申し込みに同意をして殺害されるという点で異なっています。

承諾殺人の法定刑は嘱託殺人の法定刑と同様であり、6月以上7年以下の懲役または禁錮と規定されています。


Search on 嘱託殺人 does *not* redirect to the article on contract killing, but instead to here:(concensual murder. there is a different page entirely for assisted suicide)
自殺関与・同意殺人罪
出典: フリー百科事典『ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』
(嘱託殺人から転送)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/自殺関与・同意殺人罪
  Comments:
Really helps with the nuance of 嘱託 (internal business).

This is when you pay someone to kill *yourself*.

After much reading, I stumbled on the new gloss in the middle of weblio. I can't "unsee" it now, or think of any alternative that isn't objectively worse.  There is a lot of misunderstanding floating around the internet right now, with English news sources thinking that "self-requested murder" is a "special case" of 嘱託殺人 due to the "contract murder" gloss (here and elsewhere).

承諾殺人 Someone offers to murder you and you accept
嘱託殺人 You seek out someone of your own volition to murder you
These two are grouped under 同意殺人罪, consensual murder.

Distinguished from assisted suicide. 自殺幇助. (all illegal in Japan)

Quite a taxonomy.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-<gloss>contract killing</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="2846767">承諾殺人・しょうだくさつじん</xref>
+<gloss>murder at the victim's request</gloss>
1. A 2020-09-29 04:48:50  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
more common term
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12 @@
-<gloss>contract murder</gloss>
+<gloss>contract killing</gloss>

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