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2008-03-02 From: IsraelEnews.com
Brazen New World
Asked by The New York Times in 2005 what today-taken-for-granted idea or value he thinks may disappear in the next 35 years, Professor Peter Singer, the Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values, responded: “the traditional view of the sanctity of human life.” It will, he explained, “collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.”
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2008-03-02 From: Seattle Times, WA, US
No "suicide" label on initiative
In a victory for Washington's proposed Death With Dignity initiative, a judge on Friday refused to add the words "physician-assisted suicide" to the ballot or official voters pamphlet description.
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2008-03-01 From: SpokesmanReview.com, Spokane, WA, US
Is it assisted suicide?
Olympia reporter Rich Roesler writes this morning that a judge has kept the phrase "assisted suicide" out of the language describing a ballot measure that would create a physician-assisted death-with-dignity, terminally ill but competent, humane death, suicide ballot measure that likely will go to voters this fall
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2008-03-01 From: www.FinalExit.org
NVVE Holland after 35 years
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2008-02-28 From: Regina Leader-Post, SK, CA
Mother charged with killing disabled daughter remains in custody
A woman remains in custody on charges of killing her handicapped daughter.
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2008-02-28 From: www.FinalExit.org
Health care workers responsibilities are defined in Minnesota
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2008-02-28 From: CBSNEWS.com,US
MD Accused Of Speeding Death To Get Organs
A California transplant surgeon is accused of hastening a patient's death via a lethal dose of drugs so his organs could be harvested.
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2008-02-27 From: ThereseFowler.com, US
New novel about right to die
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2008-02-27 From: Canada.com
Mother charged for killing disabled daughter
A St. Catharines woman is in custody facing charges of killing her handicapped daughter.
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2008-02-27 From: Reuters
Day parole granted in Canada "mercy killing" case
A Canadian farmer convicted of the "mercy killing" of his severely handicapped daughter won day parole on Wednesday, with officials saying there was little chance he would kill again.
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2008-02-27 From: News.com.AU
Chantal Sebire begs French president for the right to die

A French woman badly disfigured by facial tumours caused by a rare and incurable disease has appealed to President Nicolas Sarkozy to allow her to die by euthanasia.
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2008-02-26 From: The Independent, IE
This man should be allowed to die with his dignity intact
Last Friday, the HSE applied before the High Court for permission to operate upon a 93-year old man who is deaf and blind and whose mental health is so debilitated that he is unable either to give or withhold consent to anything. Without the operation, upon a dangerous and rapidly-growing tumour in his ear, the man would soon die.
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2008-02-26 From: Seattle Times, WA, US
Alzheimer's | What if dreaded disease isn't really a disease?
Book Review:
"The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis"
by Peter Whitehouse M.D. with Daniel George
St. Martin's Press, 317 pp., $24.95
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2008-02-26 From: Catholic News Agency, Denver, CO, US
Denver Archbishop decries “coercion” of Catholic hospitals in merger dispute
Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Denver, is pointing to coercion by pro-abortion groups and some state legislators in a local controversy over the merger of non-Catholic hospitals with a Catholic health care system run by the Sisters of Charity.
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2008-02-25 From: Associated Press, US
Study Suggests Antibiotics Are Overused
A provocative new study suggests that antibiotics are overused in people dying of dementia diseases and should be considered more carefully because of the growing problem of drug-resistant superbugs.
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2008-02-25 From: Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, AU
Quality of mercy restrained
Being a polio patient many years ago imprisoned in the iron lung has given me much food for thought about what is happening to Canadian farmer Robert Latimer. Latimer has just been denied parole after serving six years in jail for the mercy killing of his terribly crippled child, who was suffering great pain with no cure available and much more pain right ahead.
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2008-02-22 From: Catholic.org, Mansfield, CA, US
Calif. gay/lesbian, abortion and suicide bills stalled by attention to state budget crisis
A move to legalize assisted suicide has been sidelined yet again in the California Legislature, as lawmakers avert divisive debate to focus on the presidential race and the state’s budget crisis.
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2008-02-22 From: Mansfield Chad, UK
Bill Starr summoned to court over unpaid tax bill
HIGH-PROFILE euthanasia campaigner Bill Starr has been summoned to court over a failure to pay his council tax
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2008-02-22 From: sabah.com, TR
Paralyzed teacher requests euthanasia
A teacher, who has been paralyzed and bedridden for three and a half years has spoken out: "if I can not live like a human, I should be allowed to die humanely."
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2008-02-22 From: Catholic News Agency, Denver, CO, US
Vatican conference to examine ethics of end-of-life care
A press conference at the Vatican on Thursday presented the details of an upcoming meeting that will discuss the care of the incurably sick and the dying.
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2008-02-21 From: STUFF.co.NZ

Religion and politics were fine at Palmerston North's weekend Esplanade Day, but death was not.
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2008-02-20 From: Agence France-Presse
Luxembourg to become third EU country to allow euthanasia
Luxembourg lawmakers have adopted a bill legalising euthanasia, priming the Grand Duchy to become the third EU country allowing doctors to help patients end their own lives.
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2008-02-20 From: Reuters
Luxembourg parliament adopts euthanasia law
Luxembourg parliament adopted a law late on Tuesday to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide, adding the Grand Duchy to a small group of countries that allow the terminally ill to end their lives.
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2008-02-20 From: Cairns.com.AU
Murder for mercy, court told
The murder of an elderly Mareeba woman was a mercy killing by a devoted son who wanted to end her suffering, the Supreme Court has heard.
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2008-02-20 From: www.FinalExit.org
The Parliament of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has approved the bill Errr/Huss on de-criminalization of euthanasia.
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2008-02-19 From: Canoe.CA
Police in Wales deny suicide pact links 17 teen deaths
The body of a teenage girl was found hanging in the woods of a Welsh village Tuesday, and authorities said it was the 17th young suicide in just over a year near one town in South Wales.
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2008-02-19 From: This is Gloucestershire, UK
Dad Wanted the Doctor to End His Misery
After watching his father die slowly of bowel cancer, Bill Afleck felt compelled to campaign for terminally ill patients to be given the choice to live or die.
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2008-02-18 From: NewIndPress.com, IN
Online network of 'suicide gurus' exposed
A network of "suicide gurus" who use the Internet to advise people how to kill themselves has been exposed.
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2008-02-18 From: www.FinalExit.org

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2008-02-17 From: Korea Times
Legalization on Death with Dignity Eyed
The government is looking again at the legal issues surrounding euthanasia amid heated debate on whether the terminally ill should be allowed to die with dignity.
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2008-02-17 From: Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV, US
SHOT TWICE IN HEAD: Pair: Man sought hit on himself
Suspects call it mercy killing; victim's family says it's cold-blooded murder
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2008-02-14 From: Toronto Star, ON, CA
MS sufferer jailed 3 years in drug death
A Quebec judge denied a request for clemency in an unusual case involving a multiple sclerosis sufferer who claims a fatal dose of morphine pills he gave a friend in 2006 was assisted suicide.
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2008-02-14 From: Winnipeg Free Press, MB, CA
Doctors must take all measures to keep 84-year-old man alive pending trial
Doctors wanting to pull life-support from an 84-year-old Winnipeg man have been blocked by a court ruling and told to do everything necessary to keep him alive.
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2008-02-14 From: Winnipeg Free Press, MB, CA
The full text of the injuction in the Golubchuk case
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2008-02-14 From: Canada.com
Feb. 14, 1994: Police probe quiet Rodriguez death
This day in history:
Sue Rodriguez, the North Saanich woman whose struggle for a doctor-assisted death reached all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, died late Saturday afternoon.
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2008-02-13 From: New Zealand Herald
Nitschke to get back euthanasia equipment
New Zealand Customs is to return seized euthanasia equipment confiscated from controversial Australian campaigner Philip Nitschke.
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2008-02-13 From: KGW-TV, Portland, OR, US
Ex-wife of 'mercy killing' murder suspect says he still scares her
A man who claims he put a bullet in his sleeping wife's brain to end her suffering from a terminal disease is a skilled manipulator, his ex-wife told a Gresham newspaper.
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2008-02-12 From: OregonLive.com, US
Doctors say woman in Ore. mercy killing wasn't ill
Prosecutors say a fatal shooting in Gresham was murder, not mercy.
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2008-02-09 From: The Olympian, Olympia, WA, US
End-of-life ballot measure faces fight from coalition
The Coalition Against Assisted Suicide has filed a petition appealing the proposed ballot title and summary for Initiative 1000 — a measure that would allow voters to decide in November whether certain terminally ill adults can obtain lethal prescriptions.
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2008-02-08 From: KGW-TV, Portland, OR, US
Police: There's more to wife murder case than 'mercy killing'
There's more to the case of a Gresham man who killed his wife than the "mercy killing" described by the suspect's family, police said Friday.
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2008-02-08 From: Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, AU
Doctor spruiks death in Geelong church hall
A Geelong group advocating euthanasia held its first meeting at the city's main Anglican church grounds yesterday, defying the religious order's national stance on mercy killings.
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2008-02-08 From: The Tidings, Los Angeles, CA, US
California budget crisis forces many issues into shadows
A move to legalize assisted suicide has been sidelined yet again in the California Legislature, as lawmakers avert divisive debate to focus on the presidential race and the state's budget crisis.
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2008-02-08 From: The Ottawa Citizen, ON, CA
Deciding when life ends
Physician integrity includes the right, even the duty, to say 'no' when treatments offer no genuine benefit to the patient
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2008-02-07 From: Pacific Magazine, Honolulu, HI, US
'Right To Die' Legislation Introduced In Fono
Lawmakers in American Samoa next week will start reviewing legislation that provides among other things, end-of-life health care guidelines for an individual, as required by federal law.

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2008-02-06 From: STUFF.co.NZ
Euthanasia supporters join Exit
Workshops on how to commit suicide could be held regularly in Nelson by supporters of euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke.
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2008-02-06 From: The Oregonian, OR, US
Wife's death was mercy killing, husband's family says
Friends and family of John Roberts, the Gresham man arrested in the death of his wife, Virginia, say her death Saturday was not a cold-blooded attack but an act of compassion for a woman living with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease.
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2008-02-06 From: The Fresno Bee, CA. US
Caretaker trial opens in death of patient
Kelly Jones "fell apart under the strain" of taking care of an 85-year-old woman she is accused of killing with a drug overdose in 2006, her lawyer said during opening arguments Wednesday in the murder case against her.
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2008-02-06 From: STUFF.co.NZ
Silent protest greets Dr Death
Protesters holding banners met controversial Australian doctor Philip Nitschke when he arrived to host a workshop on euthanasia in Nelson this morning.
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2008-02-06 From: ABC.net.au, AU
Brown bill reignites euthanasia debate
Old wounds are set to be reopened next week when the Greens leader Bob Brown introduces legislation in the Federal Parliament to restore the right to die in the Northern Territory.
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2008-02-05 From: The Argus, Brighton, UK
We must help people die with dignity
Sarah Wootton, chief executive of Dignity in Dying,
says the law must be changed to allow terminally ill people
to die when they choose.
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2008-02-05 From: New York Times
A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit
As this column said in November, untreated depression is a common cause of suicide in older people, though by no means the only one. But when I spoke to Mrs. Phares’s son Michael, with her permission, he assured me that she was not depressed, just tired of living what she views as a pointless and painful existence. He suggested to her, not entirely in jest, that she move to Oregon or the Netherlands, where physician-assisted suicide is legal.
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2008-02-05 From: STUFF.co.NZ
Nitschke risks jail term over DIY films
Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has shown two controversial suicide films in Wellington, risking a jail term if they are failed by the chief film censor.
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2008-02-03 From: STUFF.co.NZ
Outrage as healthy woman helped to die
Details of the Wellington woman's death believed to be the first such death of a physically fit person in New Zealand have surfaced as Nitschke, head of pressure group Exit International, arrived in New Zealand to hold suicide seminars in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch.
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2008-02-02 From: The Times of London, UK
Husband is spared jail for suffocating sick wife who wanted to die
A husband who helped his wife to kill herself rather than watch her continue to suffer from a debilitating disease was given a 12-month suspended sentence yesterday.
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2008-02-01 From: Edmonton Sun, AB, CA
The pathology of lies
Robert Latimer refuses to apologize and so, in December 2007 was refused day parole. The parole board says he shows no remorse for killing his severely disabled daughter Tracy in 1993.
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2008-02-01 From: The National Post, Toronto, ON, CA
Free Robert Latimer
The current fate of Robert Latimer is a national disgrace. By now, the Saskatchewan farmer has been languishing in prison for more than seven years. Recently, the National Parole Board rejected his application for day parole. The stated rationale for the board's decision could serve to keep Latimer behind bars for the rest of his life: According to the judgment, he failed to show sufficient "remorse" for what he did.
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2008-02-01 From: Dutch News, NL
MPs question baby euthanasia policy
Christian Democrat MPs have urged justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin to explain official policy on the mercy-killing of seriously handicapped babies.
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2008-02-01 From: STUFF.co.NZ
Dr Death's coffee pot seized by Customs
Australian euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke has been stripped of his belongings after being detained by Customs officers at Auckland airport.
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2008-01-31 From: Marysville Appeal-Democrat, CA, US
Our View: Mercy killing: Health plan dies in Senate
Sanity and common sense, rare attributes, indeed, in Sacramento, made something of a comeback Monday when the Senate Health Committee rejected the sweeping plan cobbled together by Gov. Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez to mandate that all Californians get health insurance or get subsidized.
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2008-01-31 From: STUFF.co.NZ
'Dr Death' drawn by Nelson's population
Dr Nitschke told the Nelson Mail on Tuesday that Voluntary Euthanasia Society president Jack Jones, and the New Zealand representative of the Exit International organisation which he established, had urged him to visit Nelson because of its ageing population.
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2008-01-31 From: Camden Advertiser, NSW, AU
Euthanasia advocate arrested in NZ
Australian euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke has described as "gruelling" his experience at a New Zealand airport where authorities arrested him and seized copies of his book on suicide.
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2008-01-31 From: Sydney Morning Herald, AU
Nitschke arrested in NZ
The euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke was arrested at Auckland Airport yesterday.
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2008-01-30 From: STUFF.co.NZ
Martin rejects Dr Death movies
"Dr Death" Philip Nitschke shouldn't be allowed to show in New Zealand his films on how to commit suicide, says Dignity New Zealand founder and one-time admirer Lesley Martin.
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2008-01-29 From: Typically Spanish, ES
Madrid doctors cleared of medical malpractice in active euthanasia case
Dr Luis Montes and others at the Severo Ochoa Hospital were accused anonymously of being involved in 400 cases of active euthanasia by sedating people in the emergency department on their arrival.
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2008-01-28 From: Wausau Daily Herald, WI, US
Allow us to meet death as we prefer
Wisconsin Senate Bill 151, the “Death With Dignity” act, would allow terminally ill patients with six months or less to live to request life-ending drugs from their physicians. The Assembly version of the bill is AB 298. The proposals would rescind Wisconsin’s present law which allows the state to intervene in the patient-physician relationship.
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2008-01-28 From: Vancouver Sun, BC, CA
Robert Latimer has perfect case for clemency
Latimer's continued incarceration underscores Ottawa's lack of compassion and the government's failure to do what is right.
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2008-01-28 From: News.com.AU
Nitschke's suicide films may air in NZ
Two short films about committing suicide which cannot be shown in Australia may play to New Zealand audiences.
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2008-01-27 From: Lansing State Journal, Lansing, MI, US
Relationships must be built
After the extended and painful death of my grandfather, I took upon myself the task of clarifying the law as it relates to rights of terminally ill people and those unconscious or incompetent and unable to direct their own health care. I convened a diverse "Right to Die" task force and began to study the complex and controversial issues involved.
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2008-01-27 From: Exit International
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2008-01-26 From: Standard-Freeholder, Cornwall, ON, CA
Wrongful life suits a slippery slope
What do you think about suing a doctor, or anyone else for that matter, claiming damages for having been born? Sounds weird, sort of like science fiction, but it happens.
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2008-01-25 From: Herald-Sun, Victoria, Australia
Mercy kill debate to go ahead
VICTORIA is set for an explosive parliamentary debate on euthanasia after the Government agreed not to block the introduction of a Private Member's Bill.
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2008-01-24 From: Daily Herald, Prince albert, SK, CA
Latimer appeal a worthy move
Perhaps, this time, the powers-that-be within the nation's parole system will get it right. Robert Latimer has appealed the Parole Board decision that late last year barred his bid for day parole. It was a move that drew considerable criticism from many, and certainly based on the letters received by the Herald, irked the general populace as well.
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2008-01-24 From: Winona Daily News, MN, US
Wisonsin lawmakers hear emotional debate on assisted suicide
Wisconsin lawmakers heard emotional testimony Wednesday on a bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide.
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2008-01-24 From: Regina Leader-Post, SK, CA
Fallacy of the 'slippery slope'
In approving of the refusal of the National Parole Board to grant day parole to Robert Latimer, the editors of the Leader-Post at least recognized the extraordinary circumstances of Tracy Latimer's suffering.
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2008-01-23 From: BClocalnews.com, CA
Seniors grill MP
Victoria MP Denise Savoie, speaking to a packed room of seniors Friday at Windsor Pavilion along with fellow New Democratic Party colleague Chris Charlton (Hamilton-Mountain), got a start when one senior asked her about “dying with dignity.” Stumbling to say the word “euthanasia,” Savoie admitted the topic is a contentious one, personally and professionally.
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2008-01-23 From: CBC, CA
Latimer appeals denial of early parole
Robert Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer imprisoned for killing his severely handicapped daughter, is appealing the National Parole Board's decision to deny him release, according to a B.C. human rights group backing his bid.
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2008-01-23 From: Zenit News Agency, US
Cardinal Pell on Being in Awe of Life
The Jan. 17 address delivered by Cardinal George Pell, archbishop of Sydney, Australia, upon receiving the first "Mysterium Vitae" (Mystery of Life) Grand Prix award granted by the Archdiocese of Seoul.
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2008-01-23 From: ABC.net.au, AU
More seniors looking at overseas euthanasia options: Nitschke
Voluntary euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke says the number of elderly people who are looking offshore for ways to end their lives is increasing.
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2008-01-21 From: The Olympian, Olympia, WA, US
Thousands protest abortion rights on Capitol steps in March for Life
America's political dispute over abortion rights played out again on the Washington Capitol steps Tuesday, with an estimated 4,500 people rallying in support of ending abortions, blocking assisted suicide and other causes.
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2008-01-21 From: East Valley Tribune, Phoenix, AZ
Assisted suicide bill has new Senate supporter
   A perennial bill patterned after Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law has a new advocate and a higher profile.
   The measure, sponsored for the past six years by Rep. Linda Lopez, D-Tucson, would allow doctors to help terminally ill patients die by prescribing a lethal dose of drugs.
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2008-01-20 From: The Ottawa Citizen, ON, CA
The law is still an idiot
Tale of two murders reveals justice no match for the messy reality of human experience
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008-01-20 From: Philadelphia Inquirer, PA, US
Upper Darby man kills daughter and self
A sickly 84-year-old Delaware County man, apparently unable or unwilling to imagine his blind daughter going on without him, killed her and their dog before turning the gun on himself Saturday night, Upper Darby Police said.
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2008-01-19 From: Toronto Star, ON, CA
Pope turns tables on critics
For a Pope who practises and preaches militant Catholicism, Benedict XVI's decision to bow to a small group of protesters and cancel his speech at Rome's leading university seemed curiously out of character.
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2008-01-18 From: Business North, Duluth, MN, US
Doctor assisted suicide bill gets first hearing in Wisconsin
"Death with Dignity” or doctor assisted suicide will get a public hearing in Madison next week.
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2008-01-16 From: All Headline News, Wellington, FL, US
Jack Kevorkian Speaks Out Against Catholic Doctors, Religion And Oregon's Suicide Law
Dr. Jack Kevorkian surprised a crowd of over 5,000 people at the University of Florida (UF) Tuesday night when he unleashed an attack on the "made up mythology of religion," and said that while in medical school he never took the Hippocratic Oath.
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2008-01-16 From: Radio Nederlands, NL
Doctors debate euthanasia on babies with spina bifida
Active intervention to end the lives of babies born with spina bifida is not necessary. That is the position taken by paediatric neurosurgeons from 12 countries in an article in the medical journal 'Child's Nervous System'. These physicians express their concern at the practice in the Netherlands of carrying out euthanasia on some babies born with spina bifida
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2008-01-16 From: Alligator, University of Florida, US
Dozens protest Kevorkian outside O'Connell Center
While a sold-out crowd greeted Dr. Jack Kevorkian at the O'Connell Center on Tuesday night with a warm welcome, about 60 protestors stood outside in the 40-degree weather to deliver an icy message.
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2008-01-15 From: Orlando Sentinel, FL, US
Jack Kevorkian speaks at University of Florida
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a physician who claims to have assisted in 130 suicides, defended his actions Tuesday at the University of Florida, saying he didn't cause death, but ended suffering.
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2008-01-15 From: The Ledger, Lakeland, FL, US
Angry Kevorkian Denounces Court
   Sitting in a large blue chair in his suite, Kevorkian sips on a half glass of water and chats about the beauty of UF's campus. A frail man, now approaching 80, he has a grandfatherly demeanor and a soft handshake. He is affable and smiling.
   But Kevorkian's seemingly low-key style makes his transformation into a furious and agitated promoter of physician-assisted suicide all the more stunning. And the transformation doesn't take long.
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2008-01-15 From: Tribune, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CA
A miscarriage of justice
The National Parole Board (NPB) decision to deny parole to Robert Latimer has put our justice system into disrepute.
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2008-01-15 From: Los Angeles Times, CA, US
Justices uphold ban on test drugs for the dying
Declining an appeal, the Supreme Court lets stand an FDA policy forbidding unapproved drugs for patients, even the terminally ill. The decision illustrates a wariness to create 'new rights.'
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2008-01-15 From: Zaman, Istambul, TR
Father agrees to baby's birth after pledges of aid, house
Pledges of aid have prompted the father of 26-year-old Yildiz Alçi's six-month-old unborn baby to consent to the baby's birth after the extraordinary story made headlines across Turkey.
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2008-01-14 From: The Argus, Brighton, UK
Crawley husband admits mercy killing of sick wife
Robert Cook, 59, has been warned he may face jail for helping his seriously-ill wife, Vanessa, who had multiple sclerosis, die at their home. Cook denied murder when he appeared at Lewes Crown Court but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
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2008-01-14 From: The Oregonian, OR, US
Assisted suicide falls off the radar
Oregon has an assisted-suicide law and Washington is talking about one. But for now, how we die is just a Northwest anomaly.
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2008-01-14 From: Zaman, Istambul, TR
Brain dead mother on life support for unborn baby
Doctors are trying to keep alive a pregnant woman who is brain dead to save her fetus, but her husband does not want the baby.
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2008-01-12 From: This is Wiltshire, UK
No prison for woman after mercy killing
A mercy killer who helped a pensioner commit suicide received a suspended sentence after a judge decided she acted out of "love and affection".
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2008-01-11 From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA, US
Gardner crusade is a selfish last act
Gardner is pressing ahead with his "last campaign," an initiative to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state of Washington. The cause is controversial even in definition: Advocates speak of "death with dignity." Critics call it "legalized euthanasia."
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2008-01-11 From: Alligator, University of Florida, US
President Machen's inbox flooded with anti-Kevorkian e-mails
An upcoming speech at UF from Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who spent eight years in prison for assisting more than 130 suicides, has spurred about 1,000 e-mails to UF's administration in the past few days.
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2008-01-11 From: Canadian Press
U.S. doctors at odds with call to remove Winnipeg man from life support
A family's fight to keep their 84-year-old father on life support because of their faith has turned into a messy court case that is pitting physicians' opinions against one another.
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2008-01-10 From: Seattle Times, WA, US
Judging the dying: Oregon's experience
Assisted suicide for the terminally ill is humane and, as Oregon has demonstrated, can be administered in a civilized way.
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2008-01-10 From: Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, US
Split panel OKs pharmacist ethics
Despite confusion over the intent and practical effect of a pharmacists’ conscience bill, a Senate panel approved the legislation Wednesday that critics said could impede access to contraceptive pills and devices.
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2008-01-09 From: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA, US
Former WA gov files assisted suicide initiative
Former Gov. Booth Gardner, in his 70s and suffering from a chronic disease, on Wednesday launched what he calls his "last campaign" - trying to make Washington the second state to legalize assisted suicide.
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2008-01-09 From: WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN, US
Lawmakers debate pharmacist refusal bill
Indiana lawmakers are debating a bill over a pharmacists right to not dispense certain drugs.
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2008-01-08 From: Standard-Journal, Milton, PA, US
Milton man gets 7 1/2 to 16 years for killing his wife
An 80-year-old Milton man may be spending his last years in prison after he was sentenced Monday for shooting to death his wife in the fall of 2006.
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2008-01-08 From: Everett Herald, WA, US
Assisted Suicide II: Opposition forming
Democratic state Sen. Margarita Prentice is helping lead a new group fighting the proposed Death With Dignity initiative to create a legal path to assisted suicide.
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2008-01-08 From: Crosscut, Seattle, WA, US
The campaign begins to legalize physician-assisted suicide
Former Washington Gov. Booth Gardner files paperwork this week to launch a signature drive to put a measure on the ballot. Gov. Chris Gregoire says she will oppose it. And proponents and opponents are organizing.
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2008-01-07 From: Liverpool Echo, UK
Why it was right that my Reg took his life
The Liverpool widow of a man who used a Swiss clinic to end his life today said she would take the same action.
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2008-01-07 From: Montreal Gazette, QC, CA
What if we could choose our time to die?
"I truly believe that euthanasia on demand should be the way of the future for elderly patients," one writes. "I know several elderly, sickly people who can't wait to die, but because of our outdated beliefs must hang on until their frail bodies breathe their last breath." She notes that "the baby boomers have always got their way (and) perhaps they will be the ones to see that this happens."
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2008-01-06 From: Everett Herald, WA, US
Former Gov. Gardner becomes assisted suicide's advocate
Booth Gardner will stride back into the political spotlight this week in hopes of giving Washington residents the power to choose death over life.
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2008-01-06 From: Jerusalem Post, IL
Canadian judge to rule on Jew facing euthanasia
A Canadian judge is due to decide this week whether to renew a temporary injunction against Winnipeg's Grace General Hospital, whose doctors want to detach an 84-year-old Orthodox Jew from a respirator and hasten his death, against his family's wishes.
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2008-01-02 From: Monday Magazine, Victoria, BC, CA
Moral Culpability
Robert Latimer remains in custody at William Head, but his his recent parole denial makes little sense
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2007-12-31 From: Khaleej Times, Dubai, AE
Bahrain drafts tough medical negligence bill
Bahrain’s parliament is pushing for a law to deal with medical negligence. It will have tough penalties that include death sentence in serious cases such as mercy killing.
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2007-12-27 From: Regina Leader-Post, SK, CA
Parole for Latimer
A letter to the editor
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2007-12-27 From: Jerusalem Post, IL
Family battles plan to turn off father's respirator
"From a halachic point of view, removing a feeding tube from a patient who has any brain function is active euthanasia, equivalent to murder ... But here, in addition, unless the patient has specifically indicated by advance directive that such is his desire, one has a violation of the patient's autonomy, as well."
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2007-12-26 From: The Territorian, Darwin, NT, AU
Nitschke tests the water with new government
Voluntary euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke believes the Rudd Government will be more sympathetic toward the right-to-die cause than its predecessor.
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2007-12-25 From: Angus-Reid Consultants, Vancouver, BC, CA
Canadians Review What is Morally Acceptable
Many adults in Canada have no problem allowing specific social behaviours, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. More than 80 per cent of respondents think contraception, divorce, and sexual relations between an unmarried man and woman are morally acceptable.
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2007-12-24 From: Telegram, Worcester, MA, US
Nursing home ends the silence
For years, the closed doors of Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center kept their secret. But Nicole Croteau, Beaumont’s director of nurses, believes that death shouldn’t be a secret.
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2007-12-24 From: The Independent, IE
Dr Death: jail term for aiding in suicide 'needless'
Newly freed George Exoo, dubbed Dr Death by his critics, said he is trying to recover financially from his term in custody in an American jail after the Irish authorities requested his extradition.
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2007-12-23 From: Canadian Press
Juror who convicted Latimer says Sask. farmer should be let out of prison
A juror who sent Robert Latimer to prison for the murder of his disabled daughter thinks the Saskatchewan farmer should be freed from prison and the government should look at changing the law that requires minimum sentences for such crimes.
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2007-12-22 From: Toronto Sun, ON, CA
Criminal Comparison
Lack of remorse links Conrad Black's case and Robert Latimer's
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2007-12-21 From: Dallas Moorning News, TX, US
Bill Colby: It's never easy to discuss end-of-life care
I have worked on questions of dying and the law since 1987, when as a young lawyer I represented the family of Nancy Cruzan in the first right-to-die case to reach the Supreme Court. If anyone's family could easily have "the talk," you'd think it would be mine. I wish.
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2007-12-21 From: The Times of London, UK
Family angry as sister who tried to kill dying father is spared jail
A woman who tried to smother her terminally ill father in a “mercy killing” was spared jail yesterday, to the anger of her sisters, who wanted her imprisoned.
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2007-12-20 From: Telegraph.co.UK
Law: 'Moral judgments have no place in court'
We are so used to the idea of an activist judiciary in Britain that talking to a senior judge who shudders at the thought of judges rewriting the law comes as something of a shock.
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2007-12-20 From: The Star, Johannesburg, ZA
Victim's 'no' to assisted suicide
A British man paralysed in a neo-Nazi attack more than 11 years ago has denied in interviews that he was planning an assisted suicide in Berlin.
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2007-12-19 From: ABC.net.au, AU
Advocate hopeful Rudd will consider voluntary euthanasia
Voluntary euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke is hoping that the new Federal Government will take a more flexible approach to the issue of elderly people ending their own lives.
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2007-12-19 From: The National Post, Toronto, ON, CA
Peter A. Singer: Turning health workers into torturers
This case is the latest in a series of so-called "futility" cases that turn the right-to-die debate on its head.
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2007-12-18 From: Agence France-Presse
Neo-Nazi victim plans to kill himself in Berlin: report
A British man left paralysed after an attack by neo-Nazis is planning to travel to Berlin to kill himself, Bild newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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2007-12-18 From: The Age, Melbourne, AU
Euthanasia campaigner scents censorship
Voluntary euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke says he is prepared for more government censorship during a workshop in Canberra on Wednesday.
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2007-12-17 From: Canadian Press
Liberties group asks justice minister to end 'palpably unfair' Latimer ordeal
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is asking the federal government for clemency for a Saskatchewan farmer who killed his severely disabled daughter.
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2007-12-16 From: Charleston Gazette, WV, US
George David Exoo
Behind cell doors are God's children:
Pastor finds more humanity in inmates than jail guards
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