Should living wills be allowed?
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MPs are to debate a bill that give legal force to "living wills".  Should "living wills" be allowed?
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Advances in genetic testing are placing strains on the principle of doctor-patient confidentiality, as doctors grapple with whether to tell a patient's relatives when the patient has an inherited disease or mutation that could afflict other members of the family.    In an article in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, doctors and legal experts argued against imposing a mandatory "duty to warn" nonpatients...
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Out of death may come a rebirth. The alternative is much more likely to happen. And if it does the consequence will be a living hell that will go on and on and on.
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A High Court judge has ruled that doctors can allow to let a seriously ill baby to die if she stops breathing again. The parents of 11-month-old Charlotte Wyatt, who was born three months premature, asked
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VICTORIA (CP) - Right to die issues for the terminally ill and others are expected to be played out in a Vancouver Island courtroom where an elderly Victoria woman is charged with helping two women end their lives.
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How the judgment may thwart attempts to recover
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Dead ex-spouses are worth more than living ones. That's not a value judgment or a reflection on my ex-husband. It's just the way a provision of Social Security works.
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Life expectancy is no longer a business concern merely for insurance companies and undertakers. A telecommunications company has more than a passing interest now that it offers a lifetime of unlimited calls over the Internet for &#36;999.
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A terminal leukemia patient must  have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to  do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive.  Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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This is the question posed by Will Hurley of BMC.  After chatting with him today about life, the upcoming elections, and the open source community in general, I decided that I am pretty curious about how to answer that question myself. read more
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A High Court judge is due to announce whether a seriously ill baby should be resuscitated if her condition worsens.
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May a doctor in California lawfully prescribe marijuana for a seriously ill patient? May a doctor in Oregon lawfully help a terminal patient to commit suicide?
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Don't let a will get in the way.
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When it comes to affairs of the heart, the law is a rather blunt instrument. Despite suggestions that the parents of baby Charlotte Wyatt - fighting a legal battle to insist that doctors resuscitate their
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By MATT SEDENSKY FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Anna Nicole Smith said in a 2001 will that her estate should be given to her longtime companion to hold in trust for her son, who has died, according to a copy released Friday. The document said Howard K.
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By Leigh Hornbeck and Kenneth C. Crowe II, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 6--QUEENSBURY -- In law, there is only fact, not what could have been or should have been.
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In recent years cartloads of sometimes nonsensical directives have come out of Europe controlling and manipulating the way we live our lives. However there are exceptions and one of these is the recent Water Framework Directive.