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Inside the Dignitas house
Zurich :: Switzerland | 6 days ago
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But what is it really like inside the world's first assisted suicide clinic? The room at the Dignitas house, near Zurich, in which people end their lives. Photograph: David Levene Ludwig Minelli is explaining the best techniques for an efficient suicide...
Tags: Mr Minelli, David Levene Ludwig Minelli, Dignitas, assisted suicides, Greek, Switzerland, Zurich, Beatrice Bucher, Britain, ones persons, Assisted suicide, Suicide tourism, Edward Downes, Suicide, Daniel James, Euthanasia, Ludwig Minelli, Social Issues
Couple found dead after suicide law plea
Newbury :: United Kingdom | 20 days ago
Credibility BBC criticising UK assisted suicide laws were found dead at their home, police confirmed last night. Dennis and Flora Milner, both in their eighties, from Newbury, Berkshire, were discovered on Sunday, Thames Valley Police said. The couple's daughter,...
Tags: BBC, assisted suicides, Newbury, Flora Milner, Berkshire, Dennis Milner
Swiss to tackle 'suicide tourism'
Zurich :: Switzerland | 26 days ago
Credibility More than 100 Britons with terminal or incurable illnesses have used the Swiss centre Dignitas to kill themselves. Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf has called for organisations like it to face stricter controls. The proposals will now be subject...
Tags: assisted suicides, suicides tourism, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, justice minister, Dignitas, minister eveline, Switzerland
Ross Douthat: A more perfect death
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility As if there weren't enough end-of-life anxieties floating around the health care debate, the Montana Supreme Court has chosen this month to weigh whether their state should join nearby Oregon and Washington in endorsing physician-assisted suicide. What's...
Tags: Washington, assisted suicides, suicides law
Prosecutor: suicide rules will apply everywhere
Bradford :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
Credibility Britain's chief prosecutor says the same legal rules must apply to assisted suicide whether it takes place in Britain or in countries where the practice is allowed...But dozens of Britons have killed themselves in Swiss clinics, and no one has been prosecuted.
Tags: assisted suicides, Britain
Nursing union no longer opposes assisted suicide
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has dropped its five-year opposition to the principle of assisted suicide after a consultation with its members. Almost half of the RCN members who responded said they supported assisted suicide, while two out of five...
Tags: assisted suicides, RCN, Royal College of Nursing, allow doctors, neutral stance, terminally ill, helping terminally
Not euthanasia nor suicide, but choice
Worcester :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility Our opponents have confused, perhaps deliberately, what the campaign for assisted dying is all about in recent weeks. To clarify, we campaign for the choice of assisted dying for the terminally ill within strict safeguards...Not encouraging people to...
Tags: assisted suicides
ThisIsLondon.co.uk: Cancer patient's partner risks arrest as he speaks out to change law on assisted suicide
Zurich :: Switzerland | 5 months ago
Credibility Raymond Cutkelvin went to a Swiss suicide clinic with partner Alan to end his fight against pancreatic cancer Cancer patient's partner risks arrest as he speaks out to change law on assisted suicide Sophie Goodchild and Anna Davis 15.06.09 A London...
Tags: assisted suicides, suicides clinic
Protections sought for assisted suicide
Bradford :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility A former British Chancellor of the Exchequer says he will push to end threats of prosecution against family members of assisted suicide patients. Although family members of terminally ill patients who go from Britain to Switzerland to carry out assisted...
Tags: assisted suicides, sufferer debbie, terminally ill, Debbie Purdy
Hewitt seeking suicide law change
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt is urging MPs to make it legal for people to take terminally ill patients abroad for assisted suicide. The MP has tabled an amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill seeking a law change "in line with current...
Tags: assisted suicides, Patricia Hewitt, health secretary, secretary patricia, law change, Ms Hewitt, Coroners, suicides clinics, terminally ill, Justice Bill
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