mentally sound

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The bill allows mentally sound adults in the terminal stage of an irreversible disease to choose euthanasia to be performed by a healthcare professional.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

The case was sent back to trial court and was delayed, according to Kimberly Edds, the district attorney’s director of public affairs, as the defense argued that their client wasn’t mentally sound.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025

On the other hand, if you get a “general” power of attorney that only remains in effect while you’re mentally sound.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2024

All of them appear to be reasonably mentally sound.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2020

It seems impossible to make people just or charitable or industrious or agreeable or successful, by law, any more than you can make them physically perfect or mentally sound.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green