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Linda Fleming
Linda Fleming was a 66-year-old woman with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. She was the first person to die with Washington's assisted suicide law. Find more Linda Fleming news and information here.
[JURIST] The Swiss Federal Counsel [official website] on Wednesday announced proposals [press release] to restrict the country's assisted suicide laws. The new guidelines will seek to prevent assisted suicide becoming a profit-driven business and to ensure that it is only available to the terminally ill. One of the proposals imposes criminal liability on those who assist unless certain
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Wesley Smith notes a changed clause in Senator Reid’s health care bill could force insurance providers in states where assisted suicide is legal to include assisted suicide in their plans. If assisted suicide, or even euthanasia, are legally considered forms of “end of life care” in a particular state–as it is now in Oregon, Washington, and Montana–it seems to me that the area’s community health insurance option would be required to provide...
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- Swiss consider assisted suicide ban (guardian.co.uk)
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Penal Code Article 275, paragraph one governing assisted suicide states that abetting or helping another person to commit suicide, or killing someone at the person's insistence, can be sentenced to between one and seven years.
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From chinapost.com.tw
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Two Connecticut physicians and end-of-life advocates have filed a lawsuit in Hartford Superior Court seeking to clarify whether a decades-old law banning assisted suicide affects doctors who help their terminally ill patients die.
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- Doctors Sue Over Assisted-Suicide Law (feedburner.com)
House Health Care Bill Has Death Panels, Assisted Suicide Promotion Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The new House health care reform bill unveiled last week by Speaker Nancy Pelosi contains more than the controversial "death panels" panned in the previous legislation. The new bill, H.R. 3962, contains direct taxpayer-funded promotion of assisted suicide in the states where it is currently legal. http://www.lifenews.com/bio2988.html
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From freerepublic.com
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By TOM EVANS
Hour Staff Writer
Two Fairfield County doctors are using a lawsuit to get clarification on a 40-year-old state law concerning the ability of physicians to assist terminally ill patients in ending their lives without facing criminal prosecution.
Dr. Gary Blick, the medical . . .Full Story
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From thehour.com
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Government proposals to ban or restrict assisted suicide and the activities of right-to-die groups in Switzerland have come in for criticism. Frank Petermann, an expert in medical law in St Gallen, tells swissinfo.ch that the planned regulations go against human rights and will fail to prevent people from travelling to Switzerland to die.Right-to-die organisations have also been quick to dismiss the government plans as outdated and patronising...
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