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Hundreds Seek to Adopt Puppy That Survived Euthanasia [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsOKLAHOMA CITY -- Hundreds of people from the United States and Canada want to adopt an Oklahoma dog that survived an attempt to euthanize it. The puppy was one of five stray dogs that Sulphur animal control officer Scott Prall put to sleep Friday -- or so he thought. Prall found one of the dogs alive Saturday in a trash bin set aside for dead animals and took it to veterinarian technician Amanda Kloski. "He was prancing around. He heard me drive up, and he looked up and saw me," Prall said Wednesday. He said he initially found the stray dog near the animal shelter Friday and tried to kill ...
Nazi-Era Graves Found Near Austrian Psych Ward
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsA mass grave believed to hold the remains of 220 victims of Nazi euthanasia has been uncovered outside a psychiatric hospital in western Austria. The grisly discovery was made by construction workers digging the foundation for an extension to the Hall Hospital, in Tyrol province. Work has been halted while investigators study the remains. Matthias Schrader, AP The old hospital cemetery is pictured in Hall near Innsbruck, western Austria, on Tuesday. Officials say the cemetery could contain the remains of up to 220 people killed by the Nazis and buried between 1942 and 1945. DNA ...
Koala Population Ravaged by Chlamydia
By Larry Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 17) -- The world's koala population is being ravaged by an epidemic that would seem at odds with the animal's image as the cuddly emblem of Australia. According to researchers, 50 to 80 percent of the marsupials are infected with a disease commonly associated with human promiscuity: chlamydia. That's right, chlamydia. The situation is so dire, in fact, that experts fear the koala may become extinct in a few decades if a vaccine isn't developed. Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors A chlamydia-affected koala rests in an outdoor enclosure prior to release. The disease's effects include ...
'Wool' Two-Legged Lamb Have a Decent Life?
By David Moye - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- A two-legged lamb born to a farmer in China's Shandong province is beating the odds by standing up on its own two feet, but animal experts in the U.S. are sheepish about its chances for long-term survival. According to Rex USA, the limb-missing lamb was born to farmer Cui Jinxiu, who said the lamb was one of two born in July. "The first one was a very healthy and normal one," she told the press. "However, the second one surprised me. With a further look I was surprised to find that the lamb only has two legs." ...
German Court Allows Euthanasia With Patient's OK
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(June 25) -- Germany's highest court ruled today that cutting off a dying patient's life support is not a criminal offense as long as that person has given written consent. The decision overturned a nine-month conviction for manslaughter handed down to a lawyer who advised the daughter of a comatose woman in her 70s to cut the feeding tube that was keeping her alive. Although the ruling brings Germany in line with other European countries, including Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland, it strikes a particularly controversial note given Germany's history of euthanasia under the Nazis. Sean ...
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 ...
'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 ...
Did Sarah Palin Flip-Flop on 'Death Panels'?
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyWho knew that Sarah Palin was such a uniter? How else can you explain how the right and left want to wrap their wings around her. Conservatives embrace her as a voice of the future, liberals hail her as a present-day object of ridicule. Enter the Center for American Progress, definitely in the latter group. In a piece on its "Think Progress" Web site, the group takes delight in pointing out that the very same Sarah Palin who has inspired so much hell-raising with her little Facebook "death panels" description, not too long ago proclaimed her belief in the kind of living will planning she now ...
AARP to President Obama: What You Were Saying Isn't So
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyJust as President Obama complains about the "misinformation" about health care proposals spewing from his opponents, one of his allies has caught him in some misinformation of his own.At his lovefest town-hall session in New Hampshire on Tuesday, the president denied charges he intends to cut Medicare benefits. "We are not," he said, "AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare. Okay?" ...
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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