Euthanasia

Euthanasia

• EU court finds Swiss assisted-suicide laws vague

  An elderly Swiss woman who would rather end her life now than decline further in health found sympathy Tuesday from the European Court of Human ... 

• Belgian Nobel Prize winner de Duve dies at 95

  A Belgian university says that biochemist Christian de Duve, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1974, has died in an act of ... 

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  Irish court: No 'right to die' for paralyzed woman

  A paralyzed Irish woman who wants to die cannot legally commit suicide with her partner's help, Ireland's Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that ... 

• Minn. charges tossed against right-to-die ex-head

  A Minnesota judge on Friday dismissed charges against the former head of a national right-to-die group accused in the death of an Apple Valley woman, ... 

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  Assisted suicide on legal agenda in several states

  A push for the legalization of physician-assisted suicide is under way in a half-dozen states where proponents say they see strong support for ...