Advocates for Assisted Dying Deflated by Massachusetts Defeat
Pixland/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — More than 1.5 million Massachusetts voters said “no” to a ballot measure last week that would have allowed doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill, clinching a 51 percent majority.Jim Carberry might have been one …
Man Dies After Losing Fight for Assisted Suicide
Comstock/Thinkstock(LONDON) — A paralyzed man who fought to overturn Britain’s ban on assisted suicide died today from pneumonia less than a week after losing his controversial court case. Tony Nicklinson had locked-in syndrome after suffering a strok…
Physician-Assisted Dying: Experts Debate Doctor’s Role
Pixland/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Peggy Sutherland was ready to die. The morphine oozing from a pump in her spine was no match for the pain of lung cancer, which had evaded treatment and invaded her ribs.”She needed so much morphine it would have r…
Texas Man Accused of Helping Wife Commit Suicide
Harris Country Sheriff’s Office(HARRIS COUNTY, Texas) — A jailed Houston man said he and his wife were going through financial difficulties when he helped her commit suicide, according to authorities. Mark Kelly, 47, called the police Saturday morning…
California Woman Charged with Helping Healthy Man Commit Suicide
ABC News(LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.) — A California woman is charged with illegally assisting a healthy 86-year-old World War II veteran commit suicide by giving him yogurt mixed with a lethal dose of Oxycontin, according to investigators.Jack Koency, of L…
Father of Oregon Suicide Law Takes Own Life
Compassion & Choices(NEW YORK) — One of the first physicians to voice support for Oregon’s controversial assisted-suicide legislation in the early 1990s has used the state’s Death with Dignity Act to end his own life.Dr. Peter Goodwin …
Assisted Suicide Debate Revived in the U.K.
AbleStock/Hemera(LONDON) — A new report from the U.K.’s Commission on Assisted Dying has reignited the debate over assisted suicide in Great Britain. The 400-page report, written by doctors, lawyers and a former police commissioner, called for l…