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Monthly Archive for March, 2015

TWO WOMEN PIONEERS MAKING THE DIFFERENCE Forty years ago today Jean Humphry used physician-assisted suicide to end her life at age 42. She was in an advanced stage of cancer metastasized from breast cancer two years earlier. She fought to live, had three chemotherapies, and good pain control from caring doctors. A few months earlier, […]

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The San Jose Mercury News reported 25 March 2015: Right-to-die group offers aid, in secret, as California legislation is debated By Lisa M. Krieger As legislators prepare to debate a “right to die” bill in the state Capitol, volunteers are already helping suffering people end their lives — surreptitiously, without authorization or official oversight — […]

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Go to this website to read the latest newsletter of the Final Exit Network, March 2015 edition: https://files.ctctcdn.com/96fa7d3c301/1545c525-c194-4cb5-bdd0-8a885311c169.pdf

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THE fight to legalise medical-assisted suicide for people who are terminally ill will take centre stage in the US this year, with bills filed in 20 states plus the District of Columbia. “I feel it’s a watershed year,” says Peg Sandeen, head of the non-profit Death with Dignity National Center, based in Portland, Oregon, which […]

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