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• God week continued: Roman Catholics, disability activists 1 : assisted dying activists 0

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:10 am

  Tags: California, Physician Assisted Suicide, Assisted Dying, Hmos

  worry that once physician assisted dying becomes legal, HMOs might, in their usual secretive and not so secretive ways, withhold care sufficiently from patients in order to ensure that these patients choose (arguably not so voluntarily then) physician assisted dying as a way out of their misery.Well, I am - in principle - very much in favor

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• If it's good enough for Tigger

  Published: September 6, 2007, 8:17 am

  Tags: Life Issues, Christian Living Theology, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Humane, Mercy Killing, Non Voluntary, Pain, Suffering, Terminal, Why Put Animals Down But Not Humans

  a pet. Patients only request assisted suicide when they fail to receive the support and care they need. We must not accept the false claims of euthanasia advocates who say that killing a person is compassionate and dignified. Let's make hospice available to all, not physician assisted death. Our humanity is at stake. She also notes the inherent

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• Lives not worth living and voluntary euthanasia

  Published: October 27, 2007, 9:16 am

  Tags: Depression, End Of Life Decision Making, Quality Of Life, Physician Assisted Suicide, Voluntary Euthanasia

  euthanasia and/or physician assisted suicide. The main reasons have both to do with the idea that we should respect competent people's choices particularly when it comes to how they wish to end their lives, and also with the view that there is little point in sticking around when you suffer from a terminal illness, and there is no prospect that

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• The loss of a beloved pet makes me wish for euthanasia even more

  Published: January 11, 2008, 2:36 pm

  Tags: Assisted Suicide, Grief, Lifestyle, Ms 150, Ms Blog, Ms Community, Euthanasia

  I've written about my dear soft coated Irish Wheaten Terrier in these pages more than many might like. I've also told bits and bobs about her new sister (by marriage) Stella. There have been stories of our time together in Ireland, on the strand (yes, I did mean to spell it that way, it's another way to say beach) here in Seattle and in

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• We would not treat an animal like that ...

  Published: March 19, 2008, 7:21 pm

  Tags: Physician Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Voluntary Euthanasia

  French woman Chantal Sebire died at the age of 52 at her home near Dijon. Sebire suffered from a rare form of cancer that disfigured her entire face, eventually robbing her of her eyesight, capacity to smell, and that left her in severe pain. Sebire campaigned during her last months for her right to died a death with dignity, in other words, she

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• American preacher: How I helped Irish woman commit suicide

  Published: May 16, 2008, 5:18 am

  Tags: Euthanasia Assisted Suicide, George Exoo, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia

  An American preacher who admitted assisting a Dublin woman commit suicide has described how he helped take her own life by giving her drugs and putting a bag over her head.

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• Another Washington State Pro-lifer Brings Hope in Face of Despair

  Published: June 25, 2008, 10:42 pm

  Tags: Assisted Suicide, Pro Lifers

  In early June Spokane pharmacist Jodi Wagner, R.Ph. CACP, a member of Pharmacists for Life International, shared her eloquent and honest personal testimony on why she could no longer fill prescriptions that included drugs with abortifacient effects.Our state now has the beautiful testimony of John Peyton a long time volunteer and speaker for Human

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