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The Schiavo case and the movies ‘The Sea Inside’ and ‘Million Dollar Baby’ have reawoken interest in Right-to-Die.

The latest developments on assisted dying in Europe: Case Law Developments or Cases in National Courts, Books Published, Research published or currently undertaken, Opinion Polls, Campaigns, Cases that have attracted public media attention, Other issues.

Elke Baezner spoke at a conference in Luxembourg on accompanied suicide in Switzerland, in view of adding assisted suicide to the statutes of ADMD-L.In view of adding assisted suicide to the statut

Addition of assisted suicide to the statutes of ADMD-LIn January, the committtee suggested an amendment to the text of its original statutes established in 1988.

The French parliament adopted early Wednesday, April 13th, a law that would grant terminally ill patients the “right to die” by allowing them to put a stop to medical treatment, but did not legalize mercy killing.

A legislative committee endorsed making California the second state in the nation where doctors could prescribe medication to hasten the deaths of terminally ill adults.

Today, April 4th 2005, a House of Lords Committee published its report on a Bill seeking to legalise assistance with suicide and voluntary euthanasia for terminally-ill people who are mentally competent and suffering unbearably.

After 13 days without food and hydration Terri Schiavo died in a Florida hospice. Seven years of

A more objective look on the Terry Schiavo case from a legal point of view.

The Atlanta federal appeals court Wednesday rejected Terry Schiavo’s parents’ latest attempt to get the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube reconnected.

Terry Schiavo’s parents get Atlanta Court of Appeal to consider request for new hearing.

A lookback on the Terry Schiavo case.