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Dignity is not the same as choice »

Ms Margo MacDonald MSP has re-opened the assisted suicide debate again here in Scotland by highlighting the story of her battle with Parkinson’s disease. Given her condition, it is easy to understand why she wants to campaign on this issue and e...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Cllr David Balfour | Read more »

Euthanasia: The right to die »

Italy is all too familiar with conflicts between Church and state and usually the stakes have been very temporal political power rather than spiritual authority or transcendental peace. In the drama which played out in a nursing home in northeastern It...

Mon 23 Feb 2009 by James Walston | Read more »

Euthanasia: Not just a matter of faith »

Athanassoulis

Eluana Englaro died earlier this month after 17 years in a persistent vegetative state – and in a storm of controversy that has implicated politicians and religious leaders alike. Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, the Vatican Health Ministe...

Mon 23 Feb 2009 by Nafsika Athanassoulis | Read more »

Euthanasia debate reignited by "right to die" girl »

A senior nurse has defended legislation that threatened to prosecute a terminally ill teenager who refused a life saving heart operation. Doctors attempted to bring Hannah Jones, from Herefordshire, to the High Court in London over her right to die. T...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Adam Carrington | Read more »

Euthanasia: tied up in knots »

Sarah Wootton

In recent weeks there has been a huge amount of media interest surrounding Debbie Purdy. Purdy suffers from primary progressive multiple sclerosis and has decided that if her suffering becomes intolerable, she may travel to Switzerland to have an assis...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Sarah Wootton | Read more »

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