Telegraph.co.uk Suicide group tests society’s limitsAtlanta Journal Constitution, USABy Jeffry Scott, Rhonda Cook, Nancy Badertscher, Nisa Asokan Critics charge that the Georgia-based group Final Exit Network is undermining national efforts to make assisted suicide universally accepted and legal. But supporters and members of Final …Video: Men Accused In Assisted Suicide Get Bail wbalDefinition of assisted [...]
Telegraph.co.uk Final Exit Nework draws criticism from assisted suicide supportersAtlanta Journal Constitution, USAValerie Vollmar, a law professor at Willamette University in Oregon who has written about physician-assisted death, said she considered the FEN legal case and precedent “a whole different ball of wax” from other efforts to make assisted suicide legal …Video: Men Accused In [...]
The Associated Press Definition of assisted suicide not always clearThe Associated PressA judge in Montana has ruled that doctor-assisted suicide is legal there, though that could be overturned by the state Supreme Court. Georgia authorities charged four members of a group known as the Final Exit Network with assisted suicide Wednesday in …Video: Men Accused [...]
New York Times Assisted suicide: Should it ever be legal? — Connie SchultzThe Plain Dealer – cleveland.com, OHPurdy is carving out the means to travel to Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal. Purdy has gone public with her decision, in part, because her beloved husband, Cuban jazz violinist Omar Puente, is not allowed even to help [...]
Assisted suicide: Should it ever be legal? Connie SchultzThe Plain Dealer – cleveland.com, OHPurdy is carving out the means to travel to Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal. Purdy has gone public with her decision, in part, because her beloved husband, Cuban jazz violinist Omar Puente, is not allowed even to help her board the plane [...]
Depressed? Maybe you'd better stay off the WebGlobe and Mail, Canada… but legal issues are complicated. At what point does an online chat about suicide became a criminal act? Depressed teenagers seeking help online raise significantly different questions for society than assisted suicide for terminally ill adults. …
The National Law Journal A right to forgo treatmentThe National Law Journal(In the latter case, after a long legal battle, the patient's husband managed to get her feeding tube removed.) Removing a person's feeding tube may look like — and strike many people as no different than — physician-assisted suicide or even euthanasia …
The Associated Press Assisted suicide ring members prep for court fightThe Associated PressVoters in Oregon and Washington have legalized doctor-assisted suicide, and a district judge in Montana ruled in December that such suicides are legal there, though the state Supreme Court could overturn that decision. Most other states call for prison …Video: Four Charged in [...]
Assisted Suicide Cases Highlight Public Support for Physician Aid …Huffington Post, NYAssisting a suicide is still a felony in Oregon and Washington. Opponents of choice try to blur this distinction and media complies by calling everything "assisted suicide." But the difference between assisted suicide and aid in dying tracks public …
EMBARGO:A matter of love and deathInternational Herald Tribune, FranceAssisted suicide is legal in Switzerland. In recent years, about 100 Britons have killed themselves in the Dignitas clinic in Zurich. So far, no one back home has been prosecuted for helping them, but that does not mean it will never happen. …