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BRITISH BROADCASTING CORP – Tuesday, 24 July, 2001

French Health Minister Bernard Kouchner’s remarks are expected to spark a debate. The French Health Minister, Bernard Kouchner, has admitted he practised euthanasia when he worked as a doctor.

In an interview with the Dutch weekly magazine Vrij Nederland, Mr Kouchner said he practised mercy killings during the wars in Lebanon and Vietnam, injecting people who he said were suffering too much.

When people were suffering too much pain and I knew in advance they would die, I would help them.

While Jack Kevorkian, Sue Rodriguez and Robert Latimer are the names most often cited in the debate over euthanasia and mercy killing, a new poll suggested they were far from alone in their beliefs on the subject.

An AIDS sufferer lost the first round of a provincial legal battle Wednesday in his bid to kill himself with a doctor’s help.

Belgian lawmakers have agreed on a draft law to legalise euthanasia in certain cases, subject to approval by parliament later this year.

More than three in 100 deaths in Belgium’s northern Flemish region every year are the result of lethal injection without the patient’s request, according to a medical study published on Friday.

Since the passage of the Oregon Death With Dignity Act (ODDA), psychologists have been grappling with how to fulfill their legally specified role in the process of physician,assisted suicide.

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act influences end-of-life care across the state as doctors wrestle with prescribing pain treatment.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 09 (Reuters) – Ruling in a closely watched “right to die” case, California’s top court said on Thursday that family members have no right to stop life support for conscious patients who are not terminally ill.

The California Supreme Court’s unanimous decision came several weeks after the death of the man at the center of the case, 49-year-old Robert Wendland, who died of natural causes on July 17 while still attached to life support.

We have terrorists on the loose, anthrax wafting through the mail, and the Justice Department is in hot pursuit of … terminally ill patients?

A move by the Bush administration to dismantle Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide law was dealt a setback Tuesday when a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order for up to five months.

Text of Ashcroft memorandum prohibiting use of federally controlled substances for assisted suicide.

Nathan Diament spent two years lobbying Congress to shut down Oregon’s assisted-suicide law. But when Bush administration officials called Tuesday to say they had done the job by administrative action, he was not only pleased but also surprised.