terminally ill
Suicide by any other name (COMMENTARY)
By Kirsten Powers — October 14, 2015
Verbal cloaking is the stock in trade of the “right-to-die” forces. The Orwellian-speak they employ to describe their effort is telling. It’s death by euphemism.
California governor signs right-to-die bill sought by Brittany Maynard
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — October 5, 2015
(RNS) California's "End of Life Option Act" makes it the fifth state to legalize physician-assisted dying for terminally ill patients and it will be available to one in 10 Americans.
Belgium debates allowing gravely ill children the right to die
By Jennifer Collins — December 19, 2013
(RNS) The law will make Belgium the first country to allow euthanasia for children if they are terminally ill and living with "constant and unbearable physical suffering."
Doctor who championed ‘death with dignity’ dies at 83
By Tracy Gordon — March 13, 2012
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Peter Goodwin, the first doctor in Oregon to campaign publicly for the terminally ill to obtain medical help in ending their lives, died Sunday shortly after exercising the right he fought to secure. He was 83. By Anne Saker.
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