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Euthanasia (from Greek: ευθανασία -'ευ "good", θανατος "death") is the practice of ending the life of an individual or an animal who is suffering from a terminal disease or a chronically painful condition in a painless or minimally painful way either by lethal injection, drug overdose, or by the withdrawal of medical support. Euthanasia is a controversial issue because of conflicting religious and humanist views.
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Euthanasia as a topic is often highly-charged—emotionally, politically, and morally. Terminology and laws shift over time, geographically and globally, causing a great deal of confusion.
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@tb78 Italy? Do they do assisted suicide there?
_Lyndsay (Lyndsay) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:15:44 -0000
@tb78 Italy? Do they do assisted suicide there?
Bishop John » End of life spiritual care: Rather than focusing on patient assisted suicide / medical killin.. http://bit.ly/3C0254
omistic (Y Grantham @4uqi) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:50:39 -0000
Bishop John » End of life spiritual care: Rather than focusing on patient assisted suicide / medical killin.. http://bit.ly/3C0254
Elderly UK Couple in Good Health Commit Suicide, Complain of Assisted Suicide Law http://bit.ly/2F3R63
MangosteenGuide (Elmar Sandyck) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:14:21 -0000
Elderly UK Couple in Good Health Commit Suicide, Complain of Assisted Suicide Law http://bit.ly/2F3R63
NOVA SCOTIANS! Need input 4 college paper. Pass along. Would you support euthanasia/assisted suicide http://twtpoll.com/ikgd3b #twtpoll
anna_webber (Anna Webber) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:44:13 -0000
NOVA SCOTIANS! Need input 4 college paper. Pass along. Would you support euthanasia/assisted suicide http://twtpoll.com/ikgd3b #twtpoll
Our position on Physician Assisted Suicide will be posted on our blog by the end of the working day.
DrightsMT (Disability Rights MT) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:05:27 -0000
Our position on Physician Assisted Suicide will be posted on our blog by the end of the working day.
RT @AccidentallySxy I think my cell phone wants me to commit assisted social suicide http://bit.ly/1ducvN
AnaLovesMusic (Ana Fernatt) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:20:42 -0000
RT @AccidentallySxy I think my cell phone wants me to commit assisted social suicide http://bit.ly/1ducvN
Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief - Legal arguments for the legalization of physician assisted suicide from the 1997 Supreme Court amicus brief by six philosophers.
Meta Description: [ An article by Judith Jarvis Thomson from The New York Review of Books, March 27, 1997 ]
Back Off John! - A site by Oregon Death with Dignity, which supports end-of-life choice, that presents arguments against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's interference in Oregon physician assisted dying law. The site also provides information about the Oregon law, and a petition to sign to demonstrate opposition to Ashcroft's actions.
Meta Description: [ Oregon death with dignity - respect the will of the people. Death with dignity became an end-of-life care option in 1994 with the popular passage of the Oregon law. ]
I Want to Die - Personal story of a quadriplegic who seeks assisted suicide.
Meta Description: [ I want to die, Suicide in So Many Ways, please join us on a journey of suicide with funky gory graphics to entertain, euthanasia, suicide, suicide methods, assisted suicide, right to die, Kevorkian, Humphry, aid-in-dying, I want to die, kill me, kill, die, self-annihilation, self-destruction, fel... ]
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Longwood University's Guide to Web Sites and Literature on Doctor-Assisted Suicide - A comprehensive listing of physician assisted dying resources from a variety of perspectives.
Oregon not deluged with assisted suicides - An editorial about the successful implementation of Oregon assisted dying law.
Meta Description: [ Hawaii's Newspaper Online, Hawaii news and information from the state's largest daily newspaper. ]
Oregon Public Health Services: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act - Information and annual reports on the implementation of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, which legalized physician assisted dying for competent, terminally ill adults.
Meta Description: [ State of Oregon: Physician-Assisted Suicide / Oregon's Death with Dignity Act ]
Pro-Life Blogs - Directory and post aggregator of web logs supporting and promoting sanctrity of life issues in all aspects. Also includes original material.
Meta Description: [ Pro-life blogs aims to raise awareness and support for the pre-born and the sanctity of human life by communicating pro-life news and materials and by enabling a community of pro-life bloggers to promote their sites and interact with one another. Prolife blogs provides a link database, a blogrol... ]
quot; - The U.S. Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in Oregon v. Ashcroft, the case contesting the Attorney General's attempted nullification of Oregon's physician assisted dying law.
Switzerland's Suicide Tourists - A transcript of a television program about Dignitas, a Swiss organization that helps terminally ill individuals from around the world hasten their deaths.
Meta Description: [ They're called suicide tourists because they come to Switzerland to do one thing: commit suicide. Correspondent Lara Logan reports on one ailing man's decision to end his life. ]
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University of Washington School of Medicine: Ethics in Medicine - This site presents a comprehensive sets of QAs about physician assisted dying, and two cases for consideration.
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