Right to Die

Can A Person 'Suffer From Life'?

Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs | Posted 04.27.2012

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Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs

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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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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Gayatri Devi, M.D.

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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Paralyzed Artist Christina Symanski Starved Herself To Death

HuffPost Weird News | David Moye | Posted 02.16.2012

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There's an old saying that artists have to suffer, but after six years of paralysis, Christina Symanski decided she had suffered enough. Symanski, ...

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Death and Dying: Let's Change The Subject

Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.14.2012

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Ann Brenoff

Aunt Sylvia is 96 years old and if you asked her, would tell you she would like to die.

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Maintaining A Relationship With God When Your Life Is Intolerable

Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Religion, Paralyzing Stroke, End of Life, Right to Die, "Locked in"Syndrome, Tony Nicklinson, Theology, Euthanasia, Help to Die, God, Christianity, Religion News
Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs

God is there to help us get through those challenges, not to inflict them.

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The Choice To End All Choices

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Elderly, Catholic Teaching, Catholic, Euthanasia, Choice, Dr. Kevorkian, Death, Right to Die, Assisted Suicide, Jack Kevorkian, Death & Dying, Religion News
Sister Mary Ann Walsh

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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Hillary St. Pierre

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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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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You Still Won't Know Jack

Lewis M. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lewis M. Cohen

Hollywood is masterful at both humanizing and capturing our sympathies for brave revolutionaries, but Kevorkian is not one of those champions.

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Are the Frail Elderly Being Urged to Die?

Saul Friedman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Saul Friedman

End-of-life advocates seem to provide little encouragement to fight a disease, and address despondency or depression -- the better to hang onto life and "rage against the dying of the light."

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Terri Schiavo Foundation Allegedly Operating Without Permission, Using Deceased Relative's Name 'To Make Money'

Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nothing seemed certain about Terri Schiavo's death. Now there are questions about a tax exempt organization formed in her honor. Once America's mos...

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Should Children Have A Right to Die?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jacob M. Appel

Pediatric aid-in-dying is coming out of the medical closet. In an era of parental rights and child welfare, maybe we are finally ready to grant suffering minors the right to die.

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Why Euthanasia Is Going to Be Legal Someday

Bryan Cones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bryan Cones

British scientists have discovered "cognition" in a vegetative patient. This may encourage some at the "natural death" end of the pro-life spectrum. But I find it more to be a sign of our cultural denial of death than an affirmation of life.

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Ruth Proskauer Smith Dead: Reproductive Rights

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Ruth Proskauer Smith, a reproductive rights pioneer, has died at the age of 102. In 1969, Smith helped form the first steering commi...

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The Rom Houben Tragedy And The Case For Active Euthanasia

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jacob M. Appel

If one believes that the prevention of suffering may sometimes justify the withdrawal or withholding of care, then the very fact that Houben was conscious for twenty-three years might call more convincingly for such action.

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"Mercy Killing": When Love & Law Conflict

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murder, Medical Ethics, Jim Fish, Politics, Montana, Right to Die, Crime, Assisted Suicide, Jack Kevorkian, Washington, Oregon, Paul Weinstein, Euthanasia, Bioethics, Health Care, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

The blame in two murder cases rests squarely with a society that forces devoted husbands and wives to choose between the welfare of their spouses and the letter of the law.

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Christian Rossiter Dead: Australian Quadriplegic Who Won Landmark Legal Battle To Starve Himself Dies

AFP | Scott Coghlan | Posted 05.25.2011

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PERTH, Australia (AFP) An Australian quadriplegic who won a landmark legal battle to starve himself to death by refusing food died on Monday, his fami...

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