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...bire came to national attention earlier this month, when French media picked up on her plea to get help ending her life. Her malady, esthesioneuroblastoma, causes inoperable tumors to grow in and spread from the nasal passages, disfiguring and destroying the face before finally destroying the brain. The disease had already blinded and otherwise handicapped Sébire, and left her wracked with pain for hours on end despite medication to allay her suffering. Sebire explained her request for medically assisted suicide saying she wanted to leave the world following an evening of celebration with her three children - and avoid...
...Elysée responded to Sébire's written request for help to Sarkozy by indicating he could not sidestep legislation. Ahead of Monday's court rejection of her petition that the law be interpreted to permit active euthanasia, members of France's conservative government similarly rebuffed Sébire's plea with reactions ranging from evident compassion and empathy to cold legal rationalization - and in at least one case, prickly indignation. Housing Minister Christine Boutin declared that she was "scandalized that people can envision granting this woman death because she's suffering and deformed," adding that if France legalizes "the right...
...Just as we were about to be shown to the door, I made one last plea, something about Mughniyah being Hizballah's field general, and surely there shouldn't be a problem. "There are thousands more like him," she said, turning her laser eyes on me as if to say, don't even think that one death made a difference to Hizballah's Islamic Resistance...
...year-old daughter Beatrice, apparently the only positive issue of the less-than-four-year union of Mills and McCartney. She needn't have worried about Beatrice. The 58-page document written by the judge, Justice Hugh Bennett, contains little personal detail about her daughter, apart from McCartney's plea that the child should enjoy a normal life. "It is not healthy for a child to have security 24/7. It sets them apart from their peers and makes them an object of curiosity and, at times, ridicule," he said in his submission to the court. "Such children live in gilded...
...French officials have made it clear a revision isn't being considered. French Prime Minster Fran?ois Fillon this week said Sebire's plea "touches the limits of intimacy, of what society and the law can say." Likewise, Justice Minister Rachida Dati rejected reform of the existing law, explaining "in no case can death result from a project with which the medical corps is associated." Housing Minister Christine Boutin was even more pointed in rejecting Sebire's request, warning if France "gives the right to kill, we're heading towards a barbarian society...