"Dr Death" Kevorkian won't aid more suicides
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SOUTHFIELD, Michigan  - Jack Kevorkian, who became notorious as "Dr. Death" for helping more than a hundred people kill themselves, said on Tuesday he would dedicate himself to a longshot effort to convince Americans to support assisted suicide.
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New research shows the adage "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger" doesn't apply in treating breast cancer.
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Psychiatrists say it's a common scenario Â troubled patients stop taking their medicine, because of cost, side effects, the stigma, or delusions that they don't need it. The consequences can be tragic, though rarely as horrific as the Valentine's Day suicide-slaughter at Northern Illinois University.
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The widow of a man who had an assisted suicide says people should be able to choose how to die at home.
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NEW YORK  - The results of a new study provide no evidence to support the notion that patients with cancer can influence the course or outcome of their cancer by making changes to improve their emotional well-being or, in particular, that psychotherapy can help them live longer.
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John Freeman is a writer in New York. For a man who spent the better part of 50 years thinking about suicide, Imre Kert sz wears an alarmingly broad smile.
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Piergiorgio Welby is paralysed and speaks through a computer An Italian judge has rejected a request by a terminally ill man to have doctors switch off his life support machine.Comment
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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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A federal appeals court has rejected the Bush administration&#39;s request for a new hearing on Attorney General John Ashcroft&#39;s attempt to shut down Oregon&#39;s assisted-suicide law by punishing doctors who prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients.
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The widow of a man who had an assisted suicide in Switzerland says people should be able to choose how to die.
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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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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Most cancer specialists do not respond to the emotional concerns of their patients with verbal expressions of empathy and support, a new study reveals.
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Some people find that supportive hospice care may actually lengthen their lives, and that the doctorsâ predictions of imminent demise may simply be wrong.
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Legalised assisted death has not been used to kill people who may be "a burden to society", research suggests.
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The lawyer for euthanasia advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian says his client is in poor health and should be released from a Michigan prison, the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday.
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Suppose a person of reasonable mental competence decides, after carefully weighing the available options and consulting with those around him, that life is no longer worth living.  Should that person have the legal right to end their own life?  Suicide (and assisting suicide) is presently illegal in most western nations, a fact which only serves to make it slightly difficult for suicidal people to carry out their wish.  I propose a different approach - in fact, an opposite approach.  I propose that anyone who honestly wishes to terminate their own life should be provided with the means to do so humanely, reminiscent of (though perhaps more gentle than) the infamous suicide booths popularized by Futurama.
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Dutch health officials are considering guidelines doctors could follow for euthanizing terminally ill people &quot;with no free will,&quot; including children, the severely mentally retarded and patients in irreversible comas.