Archive for January, 2009

Ski Sunday, A Short Stay in Switzerland, Being Human, Generation … – Times Online

« 31 January 2009 | 16:06 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ski Sunday, A Short Stay in Switzerland, Being Human, Generation …Times Online, UK - 1 hour agoThe real problem about assisted suicide is that nobody has yet thought of a convincing way to make it legal for strong-minded doctors such as Turner while …



Debbie Purdy & Omar Puente: A matter of love and death – Independent

« 31 January 2009 | 16:04 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Debbie Purdy & Omar Puente: A matter of love and deathIndependent, UK - 1 hour agoAnd the campaign to make assisted suicide legal. Debbie's dream scenario involves the DPP doing as she wants, allowing her not to have to think about the …



Assisted suicide doctor set to return to work – The Herald

« 31 January 2009 | 6:42 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Assisted suicide doctor set to return to workThe Herald, UK - 1 hour agoMargo MacDonald, the independent MSP who is calling for a change in the law to make assisted suicide legal north of the Border, said yesterday she feared …'Right to die' doctor allowed back to work after six-month ban ScotsmanCommunity’s delight as ‘caring’ GP to [...]



Community’s delight as ‘caring’ GP to return to work – The Herald

« 30 January 2009 | 18:06 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Community’s delight as ‘caring’ GP to return to workThe Herald, UK - 28 minutes agoLast night Margo MacDonald, the independent MSP who is calling for change in the law to make assisted suicide legal north of the Border, said that Dr Kerr's …



Joyce McMillan: Death, dignity and dangerous distorted thinking – Scotsman

« 30 January 2009 | 17:00 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Joyce McMillan: Death, dignity and dangerous distorted thinkingScotsman, United Kingdom - 34 minutes agoIt disappears for a week or two, and then reappears, troubling and insistent; it is the debate about assisted suicide, and the growing campaign to assert …



Ethical minefield – The Herald

« 30 January 2009 | 16:14 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ethical minefieldThe Herald, UK - 1 hour agoThat is due to the search for legal clarity on the issue of assisted suicide by a number of people with degenerative conditions who want to end their lives …'Right to die' doctor allowed back to work after six-month ban Scotsmanall 2 news articles



Does Responsible Care Include Helping a Patient to Die? – Medscape

« 30 January 2009 | 15:17 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Does Responsible Care Include Helping a Patient to Die?Medscape - 2 hours agoFor 10 years, Oregon was the only state in which physician-assisted suicide was legal. Recently, 2 more states have made the practice lawful. …Questions about assisted suicide and the law The Heraldall 2 news articles



Catholics gather to remember Roe v. Wade with penance, prayer – Sioux City Catholic Globe

« 30 January 2009 | 14:24 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Catholics gather to remember Roe v. Wade with penance, prayerSioux City Catholic Globe, IA - 3 hours ago… promotes a culture of death: embryonic stem cell research, in vitro fertilization, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, abuse, genocide and war. …



Assisted suicide GP admits: what I did was wrong – The Herald

« 29 January 2009 | 18:34 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Assisted suicide GP admits: what I did was wrongThe Herald, UK - 5 hours ago"I realise that if there is to be any form of physician-assisted suicide it will have to be within a proper legal framework and that there is no place for a …



Montana judge rejects stay of physician-assisted suicide ruling – American Medical News (subscription)

« 29 January 2009 | 6:35 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Montana judge rejects stay of physician-assisted suicide rulingAmerican Medical News (subscription) - 49 minutes agoThe order means that physician-assisted suicide is now legal in three states: Oregon, Washington and Montana. The state's new attorney general, …