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Monthly Archive for August, 2011

Terminally ill patients should receive medical help to commit suicide if they want to die, a [UK] government adviser has said. Martin Green, a social care expert for the Department of Health, said those who were physically unable to end their own lives were being deprived of “choice” and “autonomy” in Britain where assisted suicide […]

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Andrew Barkley writes to ERGO: I’m an author and someone living with a critical illness. I’ve recently written a poem in support of ‘dignity in dying’. Ode to Life – TIME Life is retiring me, how am I to cope? Futile now it seems, my last lifeline of hope What is to become of me, […]

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World Radio Switzerland reported 16 August 2011: TV host’s assisted suicide in Zurich shines light on taboo in Israel Assisted suicide is a topic that often gets coverage in Switzerland’s national media, but in Israel, the subject is taboo. In recent days, that taboo has been brought into the open, following news that a high-profile […]

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Some people wonder if the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Zurich, Switzerland, is genuine and reliable because it often gets a bad press from right-wing newspapers in Europe. I consider Dignitas to be a reputable organization, doing a great service to humanity. I know doctors and researchers who have spent time there and studied the […]

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