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Update 30: Volume 18, Number 1 — Year 2004, Number 1
Assisted-suicide advocates lose another round in targeted state legislatures
Arizona
Hawaii
Vermont
Wyoming
Oregon’s reported assisted-suicide body count hits 171 in 2003
Oregon’s suicide drug of choice neither pleasant nor cheap
CID maintains network of willing PAS doctors and pharmacists
Disabled man in UK fears for his life
Pope speaks out on PVS and food & fluids
Euthanasia bill studied in House of Lords
Euthanasia advocate found guilty in NZ
Swiss medical advisory group reverses assisted-suicide policy
Swiss prosecutor moves to outlaw “suicide tourism”
Belgium on fast track down euthanasia’s slippery slope
Council of Europe defers euthanasia debate
Update 31: Volume 18, Number 2 — Year 2004, Number 2
Ninth Circuit Appeals Court sides with Oregon over Ashcroft Directive
Background
Majority opinion
Dissenting Opinion
Case proves Oregon assisted-suicide law flawed
“Terri’s Law” ruled unconstitutional
U.S. reaction to Vatican’s stand on provision of food and fluids
Australia: Nitschke ramps up efforts to circumvent law
Nancy Crick
Bill threatens Nitschke’s operation
The “Peaceful Pill”
Dutch continue to rationalize and expand induced death practice
Terminal sedation
Euthanasia reporting declines
OK given to euthanize patients with dementia
Compassionate or Callous? Approaches to Alzheimer’s by Wesley J. Smith