Word: euthanasias
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...Netherlands boasts one of the worlds most liberal policies on mercy killing, but the Bosscher case caused a sensation. Never before had a physician reported helping a depressed but otherwise healthy patient commit suicide. Of the estimated 2,300 cases of euthanasia and 400 cases of assisted suicide in Holland each year, virtually all involve patients suffering from a terminal illness or unbearable physical pain. Officials charged Chabot with violating the strict guidelines that permit doctors to help patients end their lives. Last week, in a landmark decision, the country's highest court ruled that though Chabot neglected to have...
...marriage and loses everything: his wife, her love, his car, his hairdressing business, but above all, his dignity. He meets the impassive Mikolaj (played by Jenusz Gajos) who agrees to take him back to Poland in a suitcase if he will return the favor by performing a sort of euthanasia upon their arrival. They have a deal...
...help or otherwise survived if they had used a slower method, such as a tranquilizer overdose. Only 30,000 of 300,000 annual suicide attempts are successful, but Marzuk fears that this ratio could go up if the plastic-bag technique continues to spread. Advocates for the right to euthanasia point out that the overall suicide rate has not risen. They put another interpretation on the numbers: people who would have killed themselves anyway are switching to less grisly means...
...situational, that right is right and wrong is really wrong, and that the church's teachings will truly set believers free. Among the evils the Pope sees at work in the world are genocide, torture and slavery. But he also includes matters of overwhelming concern to American Catholics: euthanasia, contraception, artificial insemination, homosexual acts, masturbation, premarital sex and abortion...
...publication People magazine spirited him and his menagerie away. But life at TIME seemed so unfulfilling without our eclectic materialist that we enticed Howard back to the fold as Society editor last spring. Since then, he has overseen covers that have examined the ethics of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's euthanasia campaign, the culture of violence in America and the anguished battle over Baby Jessica. "Politics and science and business often deal with complex issues," says Chua-Eoan. "I prefer stories that focus on human lives and emotions. They are simpler and yet more enigmatic...