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31.07.2009, 09:35
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Euthanasia is still banned in most EU countries, but is now legal in Holland and Belgium. However, legalization seems to have brought problems with how to enforce the right to die.
16.10.2008, 04:38
Euthanasia is a taboo subject in Russia, but it is being increasingly brought out of the shadows as some say that not enough consideration is given to the terminally ill and advocate the legalisation of mercy killing.
03.10.2008, 10:50
While a landmark case intended to clarify the country's assisted suicide legislation is taking place in Britain, the Swiss medical centre Dignitas is marking an anniversary of sorts. Since its creation in 1998 it has helped 100 Britons to die. It also hap
13.01.2010, 01:59
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The Council of Europe will launch a probe into pharmaceutical companies after reports that vaccine manufacturers pressured the World Health Organization into declaring swine flu pandemic seeking increase in profits.
18.07.2010, 15:33
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Healthcare officials, government representatives and scientists from around the globe have gathered in Vienna for 2010 AIDS conference amid the heated debates over what causes the disease and how it should be treated.
30.06.2009, 14:44
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A young woman from the Russian Urals has died of malnutrition at the age of 22. She weighed 35 kilos (the norm for an 8-year-old), but still was losing weight…until she lost her life.
10.11.2009, 11:02
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The international human rights platform states a woman has a right to control her body, sexuality and reproduction, but whether it includes the right for an abortion is understood differently in different states.
11.02.2010, 17:15
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The European Commission has sent Moscow a document called “Partnership for Modernization”, in which it offered its help in modernizing Russia’s economy and making it more innovative.
27.10.2009, 11:01
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For the second day in a row, Radovan Karadzic is boycotting court hearings in The Hague. The former Bosnian Serb leader is demanding more time to prepare for his trial.
30.11.2009, 18:41
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Europe has long been condemning the communist regime, but none of the countries has gone as far as Poland, where a law was signed allowing people to be fined or imprisoned for keeping and buying communist symbols.
Published: 12 January, 2010, 08:27
Edited: 13 January, 2010, 05:43
Recent proposals to restrict or even ban the practice of euthanasia have emerged in Switzerland, where doctors have been permitted to offer the option not only to Swiss residents but also foreigners.
Well, it seems complicated. Purdy has the option of jumping off of a bridge if so she choses. That option is up to her. People who are going for assisted suicide must feel pressure from somewhere, perhaps in finances and from their struggling families unless they are a vegetable staring off into space. They need help and people are content that they went out of this life nicely. How convenient for everyone. Death is death. Honestly, vegetables need a good friend. A comfortable death goes against the discussion of suicide for the aware which seems to be more about destruction and the release from pain and circumstance than actually dying. Unless you find a high cliff to jump off of, and even that might fail you, trust, you'll fight the moment of death no matter and perhaps that's what stops so many and leaves others with several failed attempts. Suicide is quite a private thing. It's been exploited and now people are banking off of it and using it in several cultures out of ordinary context. It should be an instinctive reaction and private.