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“McCarter’s ruling holds that mentally competent, terminally ill Montanans have a right to obtain medications that can be self-administered to bring about a peaceful death if they find their suffering to be unbearable.”
The Netherlands allows euthanasia if strict legal procedures are followed. Euthanasia of newborns was legalized one year ago, but it did not “cause” any killings: not one reported euthanasia. In other news, God did not attack Holland with a hurricane this year, either. Context of the story: Why is this important? Outlawed practices, such as … Read more
An Australian man with Alzheimer’s tried to kill himself twice but was unsuccessful. His girlfriend helped him try a third time by providing him with a fatal dose of pills, which he took on his own. She was convicted of manslaughter. Context of the story: Why is this important? Assisted suicide is illegal in most … Read more
The decades long civil war in Somalia took a gruesome turn today with suicide bombers targeting UN offices. At least 22 are dead.
A British man had assistance committing suicide, legally, in Switzerland. In other news, uptight conservatives have declared that if cheese has holes in it, then it is Freedom Cheese.
A lawsuit alleged that a wife and daughter helped a man commit suicide. Even if they did help, it would not block their inheritance from his estate.
After I donated through PayPal, I received an email stating, “We have no paid staff and 95% of the donations go [to] our telephone bill.” Learn more at Hopeline. Wow.
Professor Donald C. Clarke hypothesized that there is “a genuine social belief [in China] that deaths don’t just happen; someone needs to be held responsible.” I argue that his hypothesis is consistent with Chinese communitarian values and with Chinese law.
The British Royal Air Force (“RAF”) says that some fighter pilots may have to kill themselves by ramming their plane into “a vehicle carrying a Taliban or al Qaeda commander.” The RAF believes that the British people respect the military because warriors have to make hard decisions like this. In the movie Red Dawn, the … Read more
Hamas was founded in 1987 and wrote its charter in 1988. Also in 1988, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) said that Israel had a right to exist. The Hamas charter says that they have brotherly respect for the PLO, but that “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just … Read more