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An objective look into the Terry Schiavo case, can be found abstract appeal .

The move ‘Mar Adentro’ by Alejandro Amenabar has won the Oscar for best foreign language film at the 77th Annual Academy Awards.

This meeting, open to members & friends, will feature the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the “Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill” bill.

Taken from the World Right-to-Die Newsletter issue no. 46, Januray 2005.

By Michael Irwin

Contact information about the World Federation appears now on a list of “NGOs with Expertise in Fundamental Rights”, ­produced by the European Union (an organization of 25 ­countries, headquartered in Brussels).

Others on this list of exactly 100 organizations include Amnesty International, the European Humanist Federation, Friends of the Earth, Human Rights Watch, and Greenpeace.

Taken from the World Right-to-Die Newsletter issue no. 46, Januray 2005.

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Taken from the World Right-to-Die Newsletter issue no. 46, Januray 2005.

Taken from the World Right-to-Die Newsletter issue no. 46, Januray 2005. By Dr. Michio Arakawa, Executive Director,

Taken from the World Right-to-Die Newsletter issue no. 46, Januray 2005. Derek Humphry At the 15th biennial

Taken from the World Right-to-Die Newsletter issue no. 46, Januray 2005.

2005: RTD Europe will meet in Turin Italy in October, hosted by Exit Italia. It is open to members of RTD Europe and the WF Board.

2006: World Fed to Meet in Toronto Canada
To be hosted by Dying with Dignity the 16th biennial conference of the Toronto. DWD Executive Director, Cathy St. John, promises a lively and varied conference. WF Board member and sister, Cynthia St. John, has promised to help.

The Saba Medal, awarded every two years to the person or organization that has done most during that time for the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, was awarded to the Japan Society for Dying with Dignity.

An excerpt of a speech by Sidney Rosoff, the first president of the World Federation about how the organization got its start.

Taken from the World Right-to-Die Newsletter issue no. 46, Januray 2005.

The presentation of the first Marilynne Seguin Award to Beatriz Gomez, founding member and long-time President of Fundacion Pro Derecho A Morir Dignamente (DMD) of Colombia was made at the banquet for attendees on the final night of the World Conference of Right to Die Societies.