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Posts Tagged ‘assisted suicide’

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UK Children Not Charged with Assisting Parents to Die

19, Mar 2010

No Assisted Suicide Charge for Son of Sir Edward Downes
BBC News (March 19, 2010)
My very first post for the Death Reference Desk occurred on July 15, 2009 and it discussed the deaths of Edward and Joan Downes. The Downes’ went to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland to die together, their’s is a common story in [...]

  • By: John
  • In: Death + the Law| Death Ethics
  • Tags: assisted dying, assisted suicide, Edward and Joan Downes
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2009 Oregon Death with Dignity Numbers

14, Mar 2010

2009 Summary of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act
The Oregon Public Health Division (March 2010)
Report Finds 36 Died Under Assisted Suicide Law
William Yardley, The New York Times (March 04, 2010)

Earlier this month, the state of Oregon published its annual report on who used the 1997 Death with Dignity Act. I have discussed the ins and outs [...]

  • By: John
  • In: Death + the Law| Death Ethics
  • Tags: assisted dying, assisted suicide, bioethics
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Living in America and Dying with Dignity in Europe

3, Mar 2010

Frontline: The Suicide Tourist
PBS (March 02, 2010)
Assisted Suicide Guidelines: Family Can Still Face Prosecution
Sandra Laville, The Guardian (February 25, 2010)
Frontline, the documentary film unit for the Public Broadcasting Service in America, just premiered a really important new program. The film follows an American, Craig Ewert, as he decides to end his life at the Dignitas [...]

  • By: John
  • In: Death + the Law| Death Ethics
  • Tags: assisted dying, assisted suicide, bioethics
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Give Terry Pratchett the Freedom to Die…

11, Feb 2010

Sir Terry Pratchett Calls for Euthanasia Tribunals
Maev Kennedy, The Guardian (February 02, 2010)
Terry Pratchett: My Case for a Euthanasia Tribunal
Terry Pratchett, The Guardian (February 02, 2010)
Last week, the British writer Sir Terry Pratchett (he of Discworld fame) catapulted the ongoing UK discussion on Assisted Dying back into the news. This is a persistent topic in [...]

  • By: John
  • In: Death + the Law| Death Ethics
  • Tags: assisted dying, assisted suicide, bioethics, brain death, definition of death
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Live Free and Die in Montana

16, Jan 2010

Ruling by Montana Supreme Court Bolsters Physician-Assisted Suicide
by Kirk Johnson, New York Times (January 10, 2010)

Last September I posted an article on a Montana man who took his right-to-die case to the Montana State Supreme Court. The case involved 76-year old Robert Baxter who, sadly, died of leukemia before the case made it to the [...]

  • By: John
  • In: Death + the Law| Death Ethics
  • Tags: assisted suicide, death with dignity
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