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3:46pm Mar 09, 2021

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Inside The Fight For The Right To Die: Logistical And Ethical Challenges

by Terry Gross

Katie Engelhart explores the complexity of physician-assisted death in the book The Inevitable. She says patients seeking to end their own lives sometimes resort to veterinary drugs from overseas.

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8:48pm Oct 30, 2020

World News World News Health & Safety

New Zealand Supports The Right To Die, But Rejects The Right To Get High

by Julie McCarthy

The country voted to allow assisted dying for the terminally ill but no to legalizing marijuana. Two separate referendums were held along with the general election won Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
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10:57am Oct 17, 2018

National National Science Health & Safety

Survey Finds Widespread 'Moral Distress' Among Veterinarians

by Carey Goldberg

Most of the 800 veterinarians surveyed feel ethical qualms when pet owners ask them to euthanize animals that could be treated, or when owners ask to keep pets alive who will suffer needlessly.
12:03pm Jun 19, 2017

Human Interest Human Interest

Food Pantry For Pets Hopes To Help Owners That Fall On Hard Times

by Keri Brown

A Winston-Salem man hopes to prevent euthanasia of animals in the county. He started a pet food pantry with members of his church to help assist low-income residents.

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5:13am Jun 19, 2017

Daily News Daily News

Forsyth Humane Society Aims To Find More Animals Good Homes

by David Ford

Last August, after nearly three decades in a cramped, 1,800 square foot facility, the Forsyth Humane Society moved into a new, 10,000 square foot location on Country Club Road in Winston-Salem.

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4:34pm Jun 08, 2017

National National Science Health & Safety

Aid-In-Dying Requires More Than Just A Law, Californians Find

by Stephanie O'Neill

In the year since the state enacted a law allowing doctors to prescribe lethal drugs for terminal patients who request it, over 500 people have sought that help. But some doctors are still reluctant.

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5:26pm Jan 04, 2017

World News World News

Desmond Tutu Joins Advocates To Call For Right To Assisted Death

by Peter Granitz

Euthanasia is illegal in South Africa, but the Nobel Peace Prize laureate has spoken out recently in support of the option to choose. He has long lived with prostate cancer.

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5:43pm Nov 09, 2016

National National Health & Safety

Colorado Voters Accept Right-To-Die Measure

by Rebecca Hersher

Colorado became the sixth state to pass an aid-in-dying measure. It allows people with six months or less to live to obtain and self-administer medications to hasten their deaths.
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10:00am Oct 09, 2015

National National Health & Safety

Despite Sweeping Aid-In-Dying Law, Few Will Have That Option

by Robin Marantz Henig

People with uncertain prognoses or dementia can't end their lives under California's new medical aid in dying law. Proponents say those limits reflect the uncertainties of death, and of politics.
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2:52pm Jan 06, 2015

World News World News

In Reversal, Belgium Denies Inmate's Request To Die

by Bill Chappell

A court approved Frank Van Den Bleeken's request to die in September. The planned euthanasia was called after the doctor who was to oversee the procedure backed out.
4:14pm Sep 16, 2014

World News World News

Belgium Agrees To Euthanize Man Convicted Of Murder, Rape

by Bill Chappell

Frank Van Den Bleeken says he wants to die because he hasn't seen any change in himself. A court agreed — and now his case is raising prickly questions in a country that has no death penalty.