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Veteran British TV Reporter Admits to Mercy Killing
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Feb. 16) -- A well-known British television reporter admitted on camera that he smothered an ailing lover. Police are investigating the extraordinary statement, which is expected to reinvigorate debate over the national policy on assisted suicide. ''I killed someone once. ... He was a young chap. He'd been my lover and he got AIDS,'' Ray Gosling, 70, said in a BBC documentary on death and dying. ''Maybe this is the time to share a secret that I have kept for quite a long time.'' British law on so-called "mercy killings" hasn't changed much since 1961. Those convicted face up to 14 years in ...
New Twist in Killing of 'Life Coach' Jeffrey Locker
By David Lohr - AOL News(Jan. 29) – According to Jeffrey Locker's own Web site, he was an "exciting" and "dynamic" motivational speaker who presented "from the heart." According to his accused killer, Kenneth Minor, Locker was a suicidal man who was all too anxious to offer up his own heart to the blade of a knife. As unbelievable as Minor's story may sound, prosecutors in Manhattan are apparently buying it, as is evident in a recent letter Assistant District Attorney Peter Casolaro sent to Daniel Gotlin, Minor's attorney. "Certain information has been discovered which tends to lend some support to [the ...
'Right to Die' Under Increased Scrutiny in the U.K.
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyTwo harrowing cases have brought the whole "right to die" question back to life in the U.K.The first concerns a year-old infant, known only as Baby RB, who suffers from a rare genetic disease that prevents him from moving his muscles freely or breathing on his own. The baby's parents (who are separated amicably) are in court this week to determine the child's fate. His mother supports the hospital's wish that he be taken off the ventilator on quality-of-life grounds. His father maintains that a simple tracheotomy -- where a tube is inserted into the neck to facilitate breathing -- would enable ...
Montana Supreme Court to Hear Assisted-Suicide Case
By Lindsay Machak - Politics DailyThe Montana Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow in an assisted-suicide case that could make Montana the first state to enshrine medical aid in dying as a constitutional right. The seven-member Supreme Court will review a lower court ruling in December that physicians can hasten a terminally ill patient's death. That decision came on the same day that the plaintiff in the case, a 76-year-old truck driver suffering from leukemia, died. The truck driver had claimed that a doctor's refusal to help him die violated his rights under the Montana constitution. Washington and Oregon allow ...
Euthanasia and Reform: What is the Truth?
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyPut "change" and "death" in the same conversation with "health care reform," and you've got a powder keg ready to explode. And no surprise, it has -- with many Americans now genuinely worried that the Democrats' health care reform bill will get cost savings from seniors by rationing their care or euthanizing them. In addition to a broader debate about whether a reformed health care system would expand or reduce Americans' access to care, the crux of the euthanasia controversy centers on a five-page amendment in the 1,000-plus page bill that discusses "advance care planning consultation." ...
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