Only Oregon has assisted suicide law
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For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves. The retired pathologist left bodies at hospital emergency rooms and motels and videotaped a death that was broadcast on CBS' "60 Minutes." His actions prompted battles over assisted suicide in many states.
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Dutch doctors have ended the lives of babies born with disabilities but have not been charged despite euthanasia being illegal for children, a study said on Saturday.
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The assisted-suicide enthusiast, who says he helped some 130 people kill themselves, is in prison for the 1998 murder of Thomas Youk, who suffered from Lou Gehrig&#39;s disease.
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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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CHATROOM users who incited a Midland man to kill himself live on the internet will not face prosecution.   Detectives were considering criminal charges against web users who encouraged Kevin Whitrick to hang himself at his home in Wellington, Shropshire, on March 21.
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Of the 11 states considering the issue, all 11 passed resolutions limiting state sanction marriages to one man and one woman. The measures passed by large margins in every state including Oregon, where gay-rights activists had hoped to prevail.
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The U.S. Congress on Thursday easily  passed a bill to help prevent teen suicide, legislation named  for a senator's son who took his own life a year ago this week.
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MIAMI, Dec. 15 -- Executions by lethal injection were suspended in Florida and ordered revamped in California on Friday, as the chemical method once billed as a more humane way of killing the condemned came under mounting scrutiny over the pain it may cause.
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Montana voters on Tuesday approved 62% to 38% a ballot initiative to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes by patients with chronic illnesses, including HIV/AIDS or cancer, while voters in Oregon rejected 58% to 42% an initiative to expand the
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AN Italian court has overnight rejected a request by a paralysed, terminally ill man who wants doctors to take him off life support in a case that has split the predominantly Catholic country, where euthanasia ...Comment
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An injunction banning a man from taking his sick wife to Switzerland for an assisted suicide is lifted by a court.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block the nation's only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die more quickly.
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Oregon&#39;s one-of-a-kind law allowing doctor-assisted suicide moved toward the ultimate legal test Tuesday when the US Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision that upheld the law.
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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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MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 24 -- A federal appeals court granted a stay of execution Wednesday for Daniel Lee Siebert, a terminally ill murderer who said his cancer medication would interact with a lethal injection, inflicting unnecessary pain.
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Experts debate whether people at the end of life should be able to take experimental drug treatments.
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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?