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SAN FRANCISCO — Physician-assisted suicide is illegal in all but five states. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen in the rest. Sick patients sometimes ...
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Most Americans Agree With Right-to-Die Movement
(HealthDay News) — Already-strong public support for right-to-die legislation has grown even stronger in the days since the planned death of 29-year-old brain cancer patient ...
Read More »Pope Tells Doctors That Euthanasia, IVF, Abortion Are Sins
In a speech to a group of Catholic physicians, Pope Francis criticized euthanasia, abortion and in-vitro fertilization as a “false compassion” and sins against God. ...
Read More »Terminally Ill Brittany Maynard Changed The Right-to-Die Conversation
Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old woman who moved to Oregon after learning of her terminal illness, died Saturday after taking the lethal drugs that were legally ...
Read More »Brittany Maynard, Terminal Cancer Patient, Wants National Death With Dignity Act (VIDEO)
Terminally ill 29-year-old Brittany Maynard has released a new video as part of her joint campaign with Compassion & Choices to expand access to death with dignity ...
Read More »Terminal Cancer Patient Completes Bucket List, Ready For Death With Dignity
By Brad Broker Brittany Maynard, the terminally-ill woman who moved to Oregon to legally take her own life under the state’s Death with Dignity Act, ...
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