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Update 40: Volume 21, Number 1 – Year 2007, Number 1
Switzerland: An appointment with death
Dignitas: A one-way ticket to Zurich
Dignitas criticized
Swiss issue meaningless “guidelines”
New round of assisted-suicide bills introduced
Arizona
California
Hawaii
Vermont
Proper end-of-life opioid use does not hasten death
Oregon’s health care rationing plan for poor and uninsured in trouble
“Assisted Suicide is SUICIDE” by Rita L. Marker and Wesley J. Smith
Dutch court allows suicide aid by non-physician
Fear of death linked to doctors’ hastening deaths of ill and disabled newborns
Euthanasia bill introduced in Australia Australia bans Nitschke’s how-to suicide book
Michigan: Jack Kevorkian
Ireland: George Exoo
Update 41: Volume 21, Number 2 – Year 2007, Number 2
Assisted-suicide advocates fail to advance bill in California
AB 374
Battling for votes
Deadly flaws in AB 374
The defeat
Vermont legislature kills assisted-suicide bill
Washington ex-governor pushes plan for PAS voter initiative in 2008
Oregon issues truncated assisted-suicide report
Troubling cases revealed in research examining PAS & palliative care
Kevorkian’s back in the limelight, but many aren’t smiling
New Dutch report shows terminal sedation deaths on the rise
Poll: Americans divided on PAS legalization, but most would not choose it
Australia, New Zealand & Nitschke
Britons die at hands of Swiss strangers
Infanticide in Belgium
Canadian poll
Texas: Futile Care law
Update 42: Volume 21, Number 3 – Year 2007, Number 3
New euthanasia/assisted-suicide study draws international criticism
The study
Questionable data
Questionable conclusions
A case of bias
Case highlights ethical erosion of assisted suicide
Oregon has “serious problem with suicide”Final Exit Network’s “exit guides” involved in Phoenix death
Compassion & Choices establishes 1-800 suicide-aid line in California
Fate of U. S. Minister rests on extradition hearing in Irish assisted-suicide case
The right-to-die connection
Date with death
Extradition hearing
Transplant surgeon charged with hastening death to retrieve organsVatican issues definitive answers to food and fluids questions
Swiss suicide clinic
U.S. depression study
World Health Organization depression study
Nitschke’s “Peaceful Pill”
New Orleans grand jury decides not to indict in Katrina deaths
Patients in Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)may be misdiagnosed
Man diagnosed as PVS walks out of Arizona hospital