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National group provides end of life options
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Canada's right-to-die laws are being challenged in British Columbia as Gloria Taylor believes she should be able to decide how she dies. In Calgary, the Dying with Dignity organization spoke to people about those rights at an event held Saturday …

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Guns & Drugs Don't Mix
Salt Lake City Weekly
He was also reportedly willing to die for his right to get high. “I'll go out in a blaze of glory and shoot to kill,” he boasted to a friend last summer, according to the police affidavit about the shootout. Stewart reportedly had a hiding place ready …

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Right-to-die adds to mystery
London Free Press
… Special to QMI Agency Crime fiction is almost by definition about life and death, but in Susan Hill's sixth Simon Serrailler novel, the theme takes on a further layer that deals with one of this century's major emerging issues: the right to die.

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Concerns the Right to Die could fuel Vt teen suicides
WCAX
By Susie Steimle – bio | email A video shows Logan Voyer in a car at 19 singing the lyrics to a Gwen Stefani song about finding what he was looking for– an escape. "It's fun to laugh with them and remember the good times and enjoy that laughter," …

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'Why I want the right to die' in Scotland
Aljazeera.com
She wants to change the law so that she has the right to decide how and when her life will end. "If it came to the worst and I was faced with a very bitter and protracted end, I should have the right to ask for help to end my life earlier than nature …

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Right to Die, Part 2
WCAX
Mallory spent the last years of his life fighting to give Vermonters the right to die. Little did he know he'd want the right himself someday. "He had metastasized prostate cancer. It metastasized to his spine and he had a terminal diagnosis," his …

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Man on trial for helping friend's death
Sydney Morning Herald
A man accused of helping an elderly friend to kill himself met with a right-to-die advocacy group to learn how, a Brisbane court has been told. Merin Nielsen, 50, of Mt Nebo west of Brisbane, is on trial in the Supreme Court for aiding the suicide of …

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Man learned how to kill his friend: court
Sydney Morning Herald
A man accused of helping an elderly friend to kill himself met with a right-to-die advocacy group to learn how, a Brisbane court has been told. Merin Nielsen, 50, of Mt Nebo, stands trial in the Supreme Court for allegedly aiding the suicide of his …

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Tory senator: My let-killers-hang idea has lots of support
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Give the right to die to people who are suffering debilitating injuries first, then we will start to think about those who deserve to suffer. The Senator's idea is a damned good one. Typically the soft-headed bleeding hearts are shocked by this but I'd …

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Carer calls for euthanasia to be made legal in UK after boyfriend dies
This is Staffordshire
Terminally-ill Neil Lane died in a hospice on Monday – 11 years after fighting for his then comatose wife, Lorraine, to be allowed the right to die. Neil, of Loggerheads, threatened to take Lorraine's fight to the High Court and remained an active …

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