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Euthanasia
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Amid Protests, Portugal Lawmakers Vote to Allow Euthanasia
Portugal’s parliament voted last week in favor of allowing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill people by passing 5 bills similar to each other, priming the country to be…
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Spanish Government Passes 1st Hurdle to Legalize Euthanasia
Though it failed twice, the new Socialist-led Spanish government has crossed the first hurdle of passing a law to legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. The parliament voted in favor by…
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Paralympic Gold Medalist Dies by Euthanasia After Battling Degenerative Spinal Pain
Marieke Vervoort of Belgium won gold and silver medals in wheelchair racing at the 2012 London Paralympics and silver at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. She suffered from incurable and degenerative…
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Family Wants More Time for Dad Declared Brain Dead Before Organs are Donated
Anthony Vallejo, 30, of California suffered a major asthma attack on July 8 that caused his lungs to collapse. By the time the man was rushed to the hospital by…
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Netherlands teen raped as child is legally euthanized due to unbearable pain
A 17-year-old Dutch girl was legally allowed to kill herself using euthanasia after she was raped at age 14 and spent years battling depression, according to a report Tuesday. Love…
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Rethinking the Ban on Euthanasia
Main Thursday, March 07, 2019Rethinking the Ban on EuthanasiaWhen states legalize physician aid in dying (AKA physician-assisted suicide), they include three safeguards that seem essential—patients must be competent to make…
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Belgium Investigates Doctors Who Euthanized Autistic Woman
Three doctors in East Flanders, are being investigated after a 38 year old woman died in 2010, Tine Nys, in an apparent legal killing that she had requested, only two…
The Right Coast
Americans’ Strong Support for Euthanasia Persists
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A broad majority of Americans, 72%, continue to believe that doctors should be legally allowed, at a patient's and a family's request, to end a terminally ill…
The Right Coast
Americans’ Strong Support for Euthanasia Persists
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A broad majority of Americans, 72%, continue to believe that doctors should be legally allowed, at a patient's and a family's request, to end a terminally ill…
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104-Year-Old Australian Scientist to Fly to Switzerland to Die
Botanist and ecologist David Goodall will fly to Switzerland on May 10th for medical euthanasia. Physician-assisted suicide is illegal in Goodall’s home country of Australia, but a small number of…