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Assisted Suicide

Controversial Law Raises Questions For Doctors

stateline | Michael Ollove | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts that provides daily repo...

State Moves One Step Closer To Landmark Suicide Legislation

AP | DAVE GRAM | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics

MONTPELIER, Vt. — The Vermont House approved a measure Monday night that would allow doctors to provide lethal medication to terminally ill pati...

State Moves Closer To Enacting Rare Suicide Legislation

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics

Vermonters in favor of doctor-assisted suicides are one step closer to seeing legislation enacted. The Vermont State Senate voted 17-13 on Wednesda...

Poll: Wide Majorities Of Most U.K. Religions Support Assisted Suicide

Posted 05.02.2013 | Religion

By Trevor Grundy Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England (RNS) A new poll finds overwhelming support for assisted suicide for the terminally il...

Getting the Freedom to Die

Roy Speckhardt | Posted 04.16.2013 | Politics
Roy Speckhardt

If we as a country believe that people have personal autonomy over their own bodies, we should also recognize that it is everyone's independent choice as to when their life should end.

The Storyteller Is Less Than Picoult's Best

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 03.29.2013 | Books
Jackie K. Cooper

Jodi Picoult has proven with her series of novels that she is a great storyteller. Now she has written a book about storytellers that is titled The Storyteller.

Dedicated to a Cause

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 03.27.2013 | Healthy Living
Barbara Coombs Lee

Last Wednesday, March 20, the Connecticut Assembly's Public Health Committee began its consideration of a bill modeled after Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. My heart swelled as I sat with them and heard the witness of these decent, altruistic, dedicated people.

All the Wrong Questions

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 03.31.2013 | Politics
David Katz, M.D.

If "the people" does not, and cannot, mean all people, and if the Founders did not further specify which people -- then that is a question we are obligated to ask and answer. Which people? And, similarly, what arms?

Belgium Twin Brothers Die by Euthanasia -- Assisted Suicide Should Be Legal in America

Steve Siebold | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics
Steve Siebold

The states have the power to allow and regulate assisted suicide or to prohibit it, and with enough pressure from critical thinkers we will someday have the freedom to end our lives with dignity. If enough critical thinkers band together, someday we'll be able to live and die on our own terms.

Nagui Morcos, Toronto Professor With Huntington's, Ended Life With Plea For Others

Posted 09.11.2012 | College

A Toronto college professor who set the date of his own death to head off the debilitating effects of his incurable genetic disease urged his country ...

Voting: A Matter Of Conscience

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 09.30.2012 | Religion
Sister Mary Ann Walsh

People of conscience weigh key moral issues. They study and struggle with the questions at hand. They engage in a lifetime effort to develop the fine-tuned moral sensitivity needed to understand deeply Church teaching on critical issues.

Disappointed in Dr. Phil

Joni Eareckson Tada | Posted 07.25.2012 | Media
Joni Eareckson Tada

This week I am going to be adding my signature to a letter being sent to Dr. Phil McGraw from a coalition of disabilities organizations and individual...

Tony Nicklinson's Agonizing Plight Shouldn't Change the Law

Christina Patterson | Posted 08.22.2012 | Politics
Christina Patterson

The headache in Athens was a stroke. The doctor who saw him didn't think he'd survive. Now he wishes he hadn't. What he really wants is to be allowed to die.

Murder-Suicide Being Investigated At Nursing Home

Posted 05.21.2012 | Denver

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...

Can A Person 'Suffer From Life'?

Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs | Posted 06.27.2012 | Religion
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?

Sam Parker

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Parker | Posted 06.09.2012 | Books

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

Peter Goodwin, Pioneer for Human Liberty

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 05.22.2012 | Healthy Living
Barbara Coombs Lee

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.

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

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 05.12.2012 | World

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...

A Suicide by Any Other Name Is Still Suicide

Gayatri Devi, M.D. | Posted 05.05.2012 | Healthy Living
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?

Santorum Makes Bogus Remarks

Posted 04.23.2012 | Politics

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

Santorum Cites Bogus Statistics

The Washington Post | Glenn Kessler | Posted 02.22.2012 | Politics

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

Contentious Law Overturned By Court

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 04.07.2012 | Politics

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

'Mobile' Euthanasia Teams In the Netherlands?

AP | Posted 01.16.2012 | Healthy Living

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

'Dr. Death' Art, Belongings To Be Sold

AP | By JEFF KAROUB | Posted 11.30.2011 | Arts

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

'60s Memoir Troublemaker Speaks to Us Now

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.17.2011 | Books
Michael Sigman

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