New York’s highest court delivered a stunning defeat to proponents of assisted suicide last week when it issued a unanimous decision to uphold the state’s ban on assisted suicide.
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If lawmakers manage to pass an assisted suicide bill that is currently moving through the legislature in Maine, Governor Paul R. LePage (R) says he will veto it.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A 29 year-old newlywed who is dying of terminal brain cancer has decided to move to Oregon where she can end her life on her own terms and has vowed to devote the rest of her days on earth to fighting for the right of all Americans to access assisted suicide.
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A stunning new report has found that around 16 percent of people who choose to die by assisted suicide at three right-to-die facilities had no underlying medical cause and were simply "weary of life."
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The culture of life prevailed in the state of Massachusetts on Tuesday night when voters opted to defeat a bill that would have legalized physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
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Voters in the state of Massachusetts will be given an opportunity to vote November 6 on whether or not to become the third U.S. state to legalize assisted suicide.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a long-awaited decision, the Supreme Court of the state of Montana ruled on Dec. 31 that physicians who help terminally ill patients commit suicide cannot be prosecuted, thus making it the third state in the U.S. to allow the practice.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A healthy elderly British couple chose to commit suicide together on Sunday to protest UK laws concerning assisted suicide.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The ongoing and rampant abuse of Switzerland’s assisted suicide laws is causing lawmakers to consider banning the practice in an attempt to reduce so-called “death tourism.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Two Connecticut physicians are asking the state to decide on the meaning of “suicide” in order to be able to assist their mentally competent but terminally ill patients to die if they so desire.
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If lawmakers manage to pass an assisted suicide bill that is currently moving through the legislature in Maine, Governor Paul R. LePage (R) says he will veto it.
