Swiss may expand assisted suicide law
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A ruling by Switzerland's highest court released Friday has opened up the possibility that people with serious mental illnesses could be helped by doctors to take their own lives.
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Swiss voters are expected to endorse tight government legislation on stem cell research on Sunday which would forbid the cloning of human embryos and put Switzerland on a par with other continental European countries.
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A Swiss forensic expert hired by an Arab rights group to carry out an autopsy on a Yemeni detainee found hanged in his cell at the Guantanamo Bay military prison said Friday that suicide was possible.
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Two-thirds of Swiss voters on Sunday endorsed government-proposed legislation to allow limited stem cell research, local media reported.
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The High Court has lifted an injunction banning a man from taking his chronically-sick wife to Switzerland for an assisted suicide.
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Medical advances are forcing more patients and families to confront ever more grueling choices about living and dying.
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A terminally-ill British woman who won a legal battle to undergo euthanasia in Switzerland has carried out her wish, according to the Dignitas patients' association which announced her death.
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More than two-thirds of Americans believe there are circumstances in which a patient should be allowed to die, but they are closely divided on whether it should be legal for a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their own lives by prescribing fatal drugs, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds.
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The Bush administration asked the  Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold Attorney General John  Ashcroft's power to stop Oregon doctors from helping terminally  ill patients commit suicide, despite a state law allowing such  assistance.
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WASHINGTON - Seeking to void the nation&#39;s only right-to-die law, outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft asked the Supreme Court yesterday to give federal agents the authority to punish Oregon doctors who help their dying patients end their lives.
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GENEVA - Swiss voters have overwhelming backed a proposal to allow stem-cell research on human embryos. The new law won the support of more than 66 per cent of voters.
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Doctors in the Netherlands call for new laws allowing the mercy killing of newborn babies under certain conditions.
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Attorneys for the parents of a woman at the center of a right-to-die case argued Thursday she would have been profoundly affected by new Catholic teachings on end-of-life issues.
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Swiss voters have overwhelmingly approved limited stem cell research using human embryos, but ruled out cloning. Two-thirds of Swiss voters participating in a referendum Sunday affirmed a law passed by the Swiss parliament last year.
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Dignitas, the Swiss clinic that helps people end their lives, now has 800 Britons on their books.
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The Supreme Court prepares to hear a case on lethal injections that could cause us to rethink our haphazard system of capital punishment
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The Swiss government is facing calls to take a more active role to ensure the success of 2008 European football championships.