Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide
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Friday May 16, 2008
Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide • George Exoo:
An American preacher who admitted assisting a Dublin woman commit suicide has described how he helped take her own life by giving her drugs and putting a bag over her head.
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Saturday May 12, 2007
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The number of euthanasia cases is falling sharply in the Netherlands where mercy killings were legalized six years ago, a government-funded report said Thursday.
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Monday November 6, 2006
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Kennedy says she is instinctively opposed to euthanasia but after almost four decades of caring for Jonny, she believes it should be an option in some circumstances.
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One of Britain’s royal medical colleges is calling on the health profession to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies.
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Sunday April 30, 2006
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The number of reported cases of legal euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide in the Netherlands increased in 2005 for the third year in a row, a Dutch agency said Thursday.
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Monday March 6, 2006
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When Frank and Anita�s daughter Chanou was born with an extremely rare, incurable illness in August 2000, they knew that her life would be short and battled against the odds to make it happy.
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Wednesday January 18, 2006
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In a Blow to Administration, Ruling Paves Way for Other States to Follow Suit
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Thursday October 6, 2005
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WASHINGTON, (AP) -- New Chief Justice John Roberts stepped forward Wednesday as an aggressive defender of federal authority to block doctor-assisted suicide, as the Supreme Court clashed over an Oregon law that lets doctors help terminally ill patients end their lives.
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Saturday October 1, 2005
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Dutch government intends to expand its current euthanasia policy, setting guidelines for when doctors may end the lives of terminally ill newborns with the parents' consent.
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Thursday March 31, 2005
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A new proposal calls for rules and expert panels to decide cases involving "people with no free will."
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Monday January 24, 2005
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Dutch doctors have reported 22 mercy killings of terminally ill babies since 1997, according to a new study.
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AMSTERDAM: Dutch doctors have ended the lives of babies born with disabilities but have not been charged despite euthanasia being illegal for children, a study says.
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Monday January 17, 2005
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• Archbishop's aide signals new approach
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Friday January 7, 2005
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Doctors can help patients who ask for help to die even though they may not be ill but "suffering through living," concludes a three year inquiry commissioned by the Royal Dutch Medical Association. The report argues that no reason can be given to exclude situations of such suffering from a doctor’s area of competence.
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Tuesday December 7, 2004
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Four-fifths seek legalisation of euthanasia for the terminally ill, reveals a poll that suggests a big change in British attitudes
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Thursday December 2, 2004
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The High Court has lifted an injunction banning a man from taking his chronically-sick wife to Switzerland for an assisted suicide.
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Wednesday December 1, 2004
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AMSTERDAM - A hospital in the Netherlands - the first nation to permit euthanasia - recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
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Monday October 11, 2004
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Four times in recent months, Dutch doctors have pumped lethal doses of drugs into newborns they believe are terminally ill, setting off a new phase in a growing European debate over when, if ever, it's acceptable to hasten death for the critically ill.
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Wednesday August 4, 2004
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AMSTERDAM — Raising concern about possible unregulated euthanasia cases, researchers have claimed that Dutch doctors administer "terminal sedation" in four to 10 percent of patient deaths.
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Tuesday October 21, 2003
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida legislators hastily approved a bill on Tuesday that would let the governor overrule a court order and force doctors to restore the feeding tube removed from a severely brain-damaged woman last week.
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Friday September 5, 2003
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BRUSSELS – Belgium could be carrying out many more euthanasia procedures than officially recorded, it was claimed Tuesday.
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Sunday February 2, 2003
Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide • George Exoo:
The Telegraph (England), Feb. 2, 2003
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Thursday December 26, 2002
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Reutes, Dec. 24, 2002
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Most Read about Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide
- Euthanasia on the Rise in Netherlands
- Church ends taboo on mercy killings
- American preacher: How I helped Irish woman commit suicide
- Euthanasia Cases Fall in Netherlands
- Dutch government to set guidelines on infant euthanasia
- Holland to allow 'baby euthanasia'
- Fears over 'unregulated euthanasia'
- Justices Uphold Oregon Assisted-Suicide Law
- Americans face extradition after 'assisted suicide'
- Haunted mother who backs mercy killing
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