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Murder-Suicide Being Investigated At Nursing Home

Posted 05.21.2012

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Wheat Ridge Police are investigating a possible murder-suicide at a nursing home on Sunday. Police say that around 4 p.m. Donald Schaffer, 67, wen...

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Can A Person 'Suffer From Life'?

Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs | Posted 04.27.2012

Do you think that there is such a thing as "suffering from life"? Do you think that people should be able to make their own decision as to whether or not to end their life?

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Jodi Picoult: 'My Advice Is Not To Self Publish'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Parker | Posted 04.09.2012

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Jodi Picoult, the outspoken author of 'ethical fiction,' has written 19 novels and topped The New York Times bestseller list on five different occasio...

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Peter Goodwin, Pioneer for Human Liberty

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 05.22.2012

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Eighteen years ago, Dr. Peter Goodwin led the fight to grant Oregonians the right to end-of-life choice. Terminally ill with a rare, fatal brain disease with no known cure, Peter exercised the right to a peaceful death he helped secure.

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Man Allowed To Proceed With Case To End 'Intolerable' Life

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 05.12.2012

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LONDON — In a case that challenges Britain's definition of murder, a severely disabled man who says his life has no "privacy or dignity" will be...

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A Suicide by Any Other Name Is Still Suicide

Gayatri Devi, M.D. | Posted 05.05.2012

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The dictionary defines suicide as "the act of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally." The intent was clear in both cases. Both John and Mary wanted to end their lives as quickly as possible. Why did the method matter?

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Santorum Makes Bogus Remarks

Posted 04.23.2012

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The Following post first appeared on FactCheck.org. Rick Santorum grossly mischaracterized euthanasia practices in the Netherlands during an ap...

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Santorum Cites Bogus Statistics

The Washington Post | Glenn Kessler | Posted 02.22.2012

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We realize this is an emotional issue in the United States. But the simple facts, as Santorum described them, should be clear....

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Contentious Law Overturned By Court

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 04.07.2012

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ATLANTA — Georgia's highest court concluded Monday that a state law restricting assisted suicides violated free speech rights, a ruling that des...

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'Mobile' Euthanasia Teams In the Netherlands?

AP | Posted 01.16.2012

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AMSTERDAM -- The main Dutch euthanasia advocacy group says it supports creating "mobile" euthanasia teams of doctors for terminally ill patients who w...

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'Dr. Death' Art, Belongings To Be Sold

AP | By JEFF KAROUB | Posted 11.30.2011

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DETROIT -- Paintings, writings and the iconic blue sweater of assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian are going up for auction, his attorney and clos...

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'60s Memoir Troublemaker Speaks to Us Now

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.17.2011

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My sense that there's an inverse relationship between the draft and war -- more of the former produces less of the latter.

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To Kevork Or Not To Kevork, That Is The Question

Rev. Amy Ziettlow | Posted 09.12.2011

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In the next 20 years, I imagine we will witness the options for end of life choice and control expand for those facing chronic or terminal illness, pain, meaninglessness and even boredom.

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Catholic Political Operatives Follow the Bishops

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 08.23.2011

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As I wrote last week, Compassion & Choices welcomes the affirmation by the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) that religious objec...

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My Family Is Crazier Than Your Family. No, Really.

Teresa Strasser | Posted 08.27.2011

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When people talk about their "crazy" families, it really brings out my competitive nature. Unless your aunt suffocated herself with a plastic bag per the instructions in a paperback version of "Final Exit," your people just aren't that crazy.

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Dogma vs. Dignity

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 08.17.2011

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The choice of how to address suffering in a terminal illness must be the province of dying individuals themselves in consultation with their doctors, families, clergy and conscience.

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Thank You, Dr. Kevorkian

Diane Dimond | Posted 08.14.2011

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My family didn't always have deep discussions but we talked openly about death -- thanks to Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

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The Choice To End All Choices

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 08.14.2011

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The dying deserve choices in everything from choice of care to choice of where to receive it. Whether to pray or sit quietly. Whether to have visitors. Whether to see a spiritual guide.

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Why I Considered Assisted Suicide

Hillary St. Pierre | Posted 08.09.2011

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Everything had been taken from me: I could not walk more than a few steps, I could not breathe without oxygen, I could no longer play with my son or do the things I loved.

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Reflections On Jack Kevorkian: Who Owns Death?

Janice Van Dyck | Posted 08.04.2011

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There's something about assisted dying that still makes a lot of people squirm. With Dr. Kevorkian's death, I think it's time for us to take that bogeyman out of the closet.

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PHOTOS: Art By The Late Dr. Jack Kevorkian

Posted 08.03.2011

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Dr. Jack Kevorkian is famous for his beliefs on physician-assisted suicide and his subsequent trial and incarceration. He is less known, however, for ...

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91-Year-Old Stands By 'Suicide Kits'

Reuters | Posted 07.15.2011

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A 91-year-old California woman selling do-it-yourself asphyxiation kits for $60 apiece says business is booming since a depressed but otherwise he...

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Right-To-Die Billboard Raises Concerns

Religion News Service | By Steve Strunsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Steve Strunsky Religion News Service HILLSIDE, N.J. (RNS) The huge black billboard is hard to miss, looming over a stretch of Route 22 like a harb...

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Assisted Suicide: Jack Kevorkian's Legacy and Where We Stand Today

David Casarett, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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The suffering and loss of dignity that are so central to the Kevorkian/Levinson view of serious illness aren't inevitable. Although you'd never know it from this film, there are alternatives to Kevorkian's death machine.

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Kevorkian Tells Gupta 'Death With Dignity' Laws Don't Go Far Enough, Doctors Should Administer Life-Ending Drugs

Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Jack Kevorkian believes laws that allow terminally-ill adults to end their lives by taking prescribed lethal doses of medicine are wrong because t...

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