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euthanasia stories: 31 news summaries

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 Swiss Crack Down 
 on 'Suicide Tourism' 

Assisted suicides to be restricted to the terminally ill

Oct 29, 09 3:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Swiss authorities are trying to cut back on the numbers of people swarming its borders with the intention of dying. The government plans to cut back or even ban assisted suicide amid concerns that too many people—some of them not suffering terminal illnesses—are traveling to Switzerland for assisted... More »

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suicide • assisted suicide • Switzerland • euthanasia • Dignitas • terminal illness • Edward Downes • Joan Downes

Calif. Budget Cuts Means Ax Falls Sooner for Strays

Holding period halved from 6 days to 3; may doom lost pets before owners can find them

Sep 8, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - California's budget deal could mean lost family pets meet the Grim Reaper sooner rather than later, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The deal cuts the time shelters are required to hold animals from six days to three, and officials fear the move could mean animals in shelters lacking resources will... More »

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pets • California • euthanasia • Humane Society • animal shelters • state budgets • recession depression

 Rights Group Films 
 Workers Grinding 
 Chicks Alive 

Animal rights group uncovers disgusting practices at Iowa egg hatchery

Sep 1, 09 2:08 PM CDT
(AP) - An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted male chicks by tossing them live into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor. Chicago-based Mercy for Animals said it shot the video... More »

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Iowa • euthanasia • animal rights • egg • killings • poultry • chicken • factory farm • animal abuse

Obama Wouldn't Cover Kennedy: Huckabee

Says under Dem plan he'd be told to 'take pain pills and die'

Aug 29, 09 1:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Passing health care reform in Ted Kennedy’s honor “not only defies good taste, it defies logic,” Mike Huckabee declared yesterday. Adding his own take on Sarah Palin's death panel meme, he said that under Democratic health care proposals, Kennedy would have been told to “go home... More »

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Ted Kennedy • Mike Huckabee • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform • President Obama

investigation

The Memorial Killings:
What Katrina Doctors Did

Report details how staff responded to agonizing situation

Aug 28, 09 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the staff at one New Orleans hospital faced a torturous dilemma: For critically ill patients who would have to be carried down as many as 8 flights of stairs and back up to the roof of a garage, evacuation seemed impossible. With rumors of... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • investigation • New Orleans • euthanasia • Dr. Anna Pou • riots • doctors • medical emergency • ProPublica

Palin Steps Up Attacks on
Zeke Emanuel

Health adviser blasts 'misreading' as 'an absolute outrage'

Aug 14, 09 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin's supporters wanted her to make some noise, and now it appears there's no stopping her. She used her Facebook page to criticize health care legislation again today, this time time going beyond death panels and singling out Rahm Emanuel's brother Zeke—a top White House health adviser—for... More »

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Alaska • euthanasia • health care reform • Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel • governor • Sarah Palin • Obama administration • death panel

Righty Pundits Cooked Up 'Death Panels'

False rumor tracks back months, to same old conservative voices

Aug 14, 09 10:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The stubborn false rumor that President Obama is planning to encourage euthanasia, or ration health care through “death panels,” may sound like the stuff of anonymous e-mail campaigns, but it actually came from comparatively mainstream conservative media outlets, the New York Times reports. The first whispers came... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • euthanasia • Adolf Hitler • Glenn Beck • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • conservative media • Betsy McCaughey

OPINION

Guess What, Sarah? Those 'Death Panels' Already Exist ...

... they're being run by insurance companies

Aug 11, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin thinks health care reform will bring with it “death panels,” collections of bureaucrats who will ration care, deciding whose life is and isn’t worth saving. The flaw in that logic? “That’s not the future of health care—it’s the present,” writes... More »

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health care • health insurance • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform • insurance industry • Sarah Palin • women's issues • deathers

OPINION

 Ezekiel Emanuel 
 No 'Doctor Death' 

Reform opponents grossly distort bioethicist's record

Aug 11, 09 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - To hear conservative bloggers tell it, Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm’s brother, is a bean-counting euthanasia enthusiast who wants to deny care for the disabled. The New York Post dubbed him a “deadly doctor,” and Sarah Palin warned supporters to fear his “Orwellian thinking.” It’s... More »

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assisted suicide • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform • Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel • medical ethics

(Newser) - Now that notable unemployed person Sarah Palin has revealed Barack Obama’s plans for bureaucrat-run “death panels,” Americans are full of questions. Will the death panels cover everyone? What will our premiums be? Should they be public, or should we try a free-market death panel exchange? Well, Jon... More »

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euthanasia • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Sarah Palin • deathers

(Newser) - Conservatives are pulling no punches as they attack health care reform, but their scare tactics rely “on a notably elastic approach to the truth,” writes Mike Madden of Salon. Here are the top myths circulating:
  • Obama wants to kill your grandma: The tiny kernel of
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health care • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform

(Newser) - Conservative radio hosts are scaring America's seniors with a campaign against an end-of-life counseling proposal in the health care reform bill, the Washington Post reports. Under the proposal doctors would be reimbursed for consulting with elderly patients about what medical interventions they would prefer as the end nears, but opponents... More »

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health care • euthanasia • death • AARP • health care reform • end of life care • seniors

British MS
Victim Wins Key Right-to-Die Ruling

Court orders that current law be clarified

Jul 31, 09 7:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British woman has won her legal battle to force the government to clarify its law on assisted suicide, the Guardian reports. Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy, whose health is deteriorating, wants to travel to a Swiss euthanasia clinic to die when her condition becomes unbearable. Britain's highest court agreed... More »

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assisted suicide • euthanasia • multiple sclerosis • Britain • right to die • Debbie Purdy

(Newser) - Anti-suicide campaigners fear that the death of a British conductor and his wife in a Swiss suicide clinic this week will cause a rise in "together forever" suicides among the elderly, the Times of London reports. Edmund Downes, 85, chose to die alongside his terminally ill wife. Church groups... More »

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suicide • assisted suicide • euthanasia • conductor • Edward Downes • Joan Downes

Woman First to Use Washington Suicide Law

Cancer patient, 66, takes lethal dose under Death with Dignity Act

May 22, 09 1:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - A 66-year-old woman became the first to opt for physician-assisted suicide under Washington state’s new death-with-dignity law, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. Suffering from stage 4 pancreatic cancer, Linda Fleming took a lethal dose of medication last night, surrounded by her family, doctor and dog. More »

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assisted suicide • euthanasia • Washington state • Linda Fleming

Clinic Wants
to Help Healthy Woman Kill Self

Swiss founder argues option shouldn't be
only for terminally ill

Apr 3, 09 9:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The founder of a Swiss assisted-suicide center thinks the Brits are too narrow-minded about the service he offers—it should be available to everyone, not just the terminally ill. The center has sparked an uproar in Britain over plans to help a healthy woman kill herself, the Times of London... More »

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assisted suicide • Switzerland • euthanasia • Dignitas

No Room at the Zoo: Baby Hippo May Meet His Maker

Zookeepers deny little Farasi will be put down

Mar 13, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Farasi, the hippopotamus calf that has dazzled Switzerland since his birth last November, needs a new home, fast. Otherwise, he could become animal chow for the Basel Zoo's carnivores, the Wall Street Journal reports. The 220-pound hippo, who beat out Roger Federer to be named 2008’s “Swiss of... More »

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Switzerland • euthanasia • zoo • hippopotamus

(Newser) - Socks is no more. The First Cat of the Clinton White House died today at the age of 20, People reports. The feline, who had lived with Bill Clinton’s former personal secretary, Betty Curie, since leaving the White House, was put down after a bout with throat cancer.... More »

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Hillary Clinton • White House • Bill Clinton • euthanasia • cat • feline • Socks the Cat • Betty Currie • throat cancer

 Vatican Splits Off 
 From Italian Law 

Vatican will no longer rubber stamp Italian laws before adopting them

Jan 2, 09 1:59 AM CST
(Newser) - The Vatican is getting a divorce from Italian law. The Pope has decreed his city-state within Rome will no longer automatically endorse Italian legislation, but will scrutinize bills for conflicts with Roman Catholic doctrine before adopting them. It's the first time the Vatican has distanced itself from Italy's laws—and... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican City • gay marriage • divorce • Italy • euthanasia • Lateran treaties • Bill Maher Grid

 Hard Times Bite Dogs, Cats 

Out of work owners leave pets at shelters

Dec 22, 08 6:15 AM CST
(Newser) - As man's bills pile up, man's best friend is all too often getting the heave-ho, reports the AP in a look at the economic impact on animal shelters across a recession-battered America. As dogs and cats of broke owners stretch shelters to their limits, the sinking economy also cuts into... More »

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euthanasia • Humane Society • dog • cat • economy • animal shelters • veterinary services • Petside.com • American Pet Products Association • Animal Humane Association • Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals • Help Out Pets Everywhere

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