What does it mean to dream about euthanasia?
A dream of a mercy death often reflects feelings about ending suffering or letting something go, and it carries no judgment or prediction.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would read such a dream as the mind handling a hard wish, perhaps to end a pain or to be released from one. He would treat it as feeling given form rather than a comment on right and wrong. The question is what the dreamer wishes could be set to rest.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see a mercy death as the choice to release something that has run its course and can no longer be carried. The image can hold grief and relief together over an ending the dreamer feels is needed. He would hold it without blame and ask what was being let go.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Under the continuity view, these dreams tend to follow real caregiving, loss, or the weight of a difficult decision. The mind continues by night the heavy things it has been weighing by day. The dreamer's own feeling is the surest guide to the meaning.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Many traditions kept rites for a death seen as merciful, and told of figures who eased the passing of those in pain. These customs gave a place for both sorrow and release. They named the ending as a passage rather than only a loss.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Frazer; Brewer).