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Will NY approve medically assisted suicide? What doctors, disability advocates say
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoA decade-long push to allow medically assisted suicide in New York has taken a spot on the list of...
Another Voice: Professional medicine should not endorse assisted suicide
The Buffalo News· 3 days agoLast month the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) endorsed assisted suicide...
French National Assembly opens debate on assisted suicide
dpa international via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFrance's National Assembly on Monday opened debate on draft legislation paving the way for assisted ...
French parliament debates divisive bill on assisted dying
AFP via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFrance's parliament on Monday started debating a deeply controversial right-to-die bill backed by...
What Minnesota lawmakers got done, didn’t get done — and how they’ll campaign on it
The Fargo Forum· 8 hours agoMinnesota’s legislative session came to a chaotic close this year as Democratic-Farmer-Labor...
A vote for Medical Aid in Dying is not a vote for suicide (Guest Opinion by Dr. Barry B. Perlman)
The Post-Standard· 6 hours agoDr. Barry B. Perlman, a retired psychiatrist, is a past president of the New York State Psychiatric...
Assisted dying plans for terminally ill approved
BBC via Yahoo News· 6 days ago"They have recognised that doing nothing and maintaining the status quo is unconscionable." However, Deputy Barbara Ward, who worked as a nurse for 45...
Pope to palliative care symposium: Euthanasia is a ‘failure of love’
Catholic News Agency· 6 days ago“‘[C]ompassion,’ a word that means ‘suffering with,’ does not involve the intentional ending of a...
Landmark assisted dying debate continues in Jersey
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 days agoHowever, Deputy Barbara Ward, who worked as a nurse for 45 years, spoke against the proposals, saying it should be called “an assisted suicide bill” and...
Jersey backs assisted dying in landmark vote
Daily Telegraph· 6 days agoDame Esther Rantzen, the 83-year-old broadcaster and the founder of Childline, who last year revealed that she had been diagnosed with terminal lung...