Dying with Dignity Bill 'flawed' A Tasmanian Parliamentary committee has found proposed legislation to legalise voluntary euthanasia is flawed.

Doctors Deserve Assisted Suicide Answer Two physicians from Fairfield County are trying to force the state to confront one of society's most difficult moral-ethical-legal issues: May a doctor help a terminally ill patient die? The two doctors, Gary Blick of Norwalk and Ronald Levine of Greenwich, have filed suit asking the courts to declare that the state criminal statute banning assisted suicide doesn't apply to physicians who provide aid in dying.

Televised assisted suicide reopens euthanasia debate Debate has raged in Denmark following the Sunday broadcast by TV2 of the story of Kaj Guldbech, a cancer sufferer who chose to end his life after living with an incurable case of pancreatic cancer.

Norfolk coroner speaks out over 'right to die' case Norfolk's coroner today moved to clarify the issues surrounding the death of a young woman who refused lifesaving treatment after drinking poison. Kerrie Wooltorton, 26, from Norwich, died two years ago, but there has been widespread media coverage since her inquest last week. Her parents have said they may take legal action against the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, where she died.

Assisted suicide bill a work in progress Should the terminally ill be permitted to acquire medication whose primary purpose would be to hasten their own deaths? And, if so, how do you ensure proper safeguards are in place so that no one is coerced into making this decision under outside pressure from their families.

Assisted Suicide A Patient's Right In 1994, the people of the state of Oregon approved the Death with Dignity Act which, for the first time in the U.S., allowed patients with certain diseases to determine the manner and time of their deaths; doctors are permitted to prescribe lethal combinations of drugs under circumstances detailed by a patient. Certain parameters were drawn in the law in order to avoid potential abuse of the system. Thus, only specific diseases are covered under the act, and there is a time limit as to the proximity to the estimated end of life; patients must have one of several terminal illnesses, and it must be verified that they are estimated to be six or fewer months away from natural death.

We Should All Have The Right To Die As We Choose John Welles loaded his old .38-caliber revolver, bent his tiring frame over a walker to make his way out to his garden and laid down. His friend Hunt Williams, who'd just cleaned the gun, suggested where Welles should aim the revolver and then began walking the 100 or so yards up the driveway.

Stories behind the act of assisted suicide Some agree with terminally ill, mentally competent individuals having the right to die. Some don't. But many more wanted to share their stories -- personal, heartbreaking stories of friends and family members who chose to end their pain.

Norwalk, Greenwich doctors file suit to allow assisted suicide Two southwestern Connecticut doctors said Wednesday that they are suing the state to allow them to provide "aid in dying" for mentally competent, terminally ill patients.

Bishops: legal rules could prevent repeat of Kerrie Wooltorton ‘living will’ suicide Doctors who allow suicidal patients to die because they have written a “living will” could be breaking Government guidelines, Roman Catholic bishops claim.

Suicide advice websites face prosecution Internet campaigners whose advice on how to take your own life is used in an assisted suicide face possible prosecution, according to the new guidance published yesterday.

Warning over advice on assisted suicide Nurses have been warned that new assisted suicide guidelines do not mean that they should work any differently.

Martin Opposes Canada's Assisted Suicide Bill “I oppose introducing assisted suicide into Canada,” Martin said, as he commented on Francine Lalonde’s “right to die with dignity” legislation. “I believe our ARCH hospice in our community is an outstanding example of compassionate palliative care in action. They help patients and their families. We need more hospices and our government must fund palliative care in a serious manner.”

Living wills case could lead to 'assisted suicide by backdoor' The case of Kerrie Wooltorton who used a 'living will' to order doctors not to save her life when she deliberately poisoned herself could lead to assisted suicide by the back door, a psychiatrist has warned.

How does it feel when a family member chooses the 'right to die'? The laws on assisted suicide have been in the news recently, with new guidelines on when people should or shouldn't be prosecuted for helping a relative or friend with a terminal illness end their lives. But how do families feel after a loved one has chosen a medically assisted death?

Assisted suicide TV programme reopens debate Terminally ill choosing assisted suicide should be allowed to do so without travelling abroad, advocates urge.

Suicide culture Were doctors right to honour a young woman’s ‘living will’ and allow her to kill herself?

Dani Garavelli: A matter of life or death Pity the poor doctors on duty the night Kerrie Wooltorton was wheeled into Norfolk and Norwich Hospital having swallowed a lethal dose of anti-freeze for the ninth time in 12 months. Just as they were gearing up to flush out her kidneys again, she presented them with a letter insisting that, though she called an ambulance, she didn't want to be treated, and an ethical dilemma no amount of training could have prepared them for.

'Assisted suicide' amounts to a licence to kill The DPP's guidelines are opposed to Torah values.

Right-to-die movement wants new Canadian laws A chronically ill Canadian woman who lives in constant pain is spending her life's savings to travel to Switzerland so a clinic can assist her in suicide.