TIME: Top Science and Health Storie (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Former Washington State governor Booth Gardner is crusading to make physician-assisted suicide legal in his state. It won't be an easy battle
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
"I am not a monster. I'm also not a God. In the best case I'm an angel," muses a doctor in a Dutch play about euthanasia, before delivering a lethal injection to an old friend, a cancer patient. The Good Death is playing to packed houses across The Netherlands, which became the first country to legalise euthanasia in 2002.
TIME: Top World Stories (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
After a French man marries a citizen of the Netherlands, he finds himself abandoned by his home country
Technoccult (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Having spent most of my developing years taking care of sick family members, I feel very strongly about people having a choice in their death. There is nothing more humbling than watching those you love, once vital, productive members of society, deteriorate before your eyes. Those with a terminal illness, who have tried everything [...]
jillstanek.com (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
By Steven Ertelt So the latest news out of France is that Chantal Sebire allowed herself to get in the condition she was in so she could press for assisted suicide. Sebire, as Jill's readers will recall, is the woman with a terribly facial tumor who received international attention for her condition and French courts denying her request for a doctor to help her kill herself. Well, now come to find...
baithak (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Europe is deeply split over how it treats its terminally ill. The divisions were exposed on one day in March, when Belgian writer Hugo Claus ended his life under medical supervision in Antwerp and French former teacher Chantal Sebire died at home, having lost a legal battle to choose her time of dying. Here, the BBC News website shows the patchwork of different laws in force across Europe. baithak...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Where European nations stand on euthanasia
BBC News (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Europe is split by the debate on euthanasia - in countries where it is banned, governments are coming under pressure to change.
bioethics.com (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Very few people could have looked upon Chantal Sébire at the end of her life and not understood why the former schoolteacher wished to end it. Left horribly disfigured and in frequent torment from incurable tumors that amassed in her sinuses and skull, Sébire's plea that doctors be allowed to legally terminate her life deeply [...]
GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
The French Catholic websites are still fighting back against the pro-euthanasia lobby that continues to hammer away about the need for a law allowing the "humane" and morally advanced procedure of ending someone's life because of illness or age or some undesirable trait. In my recent post on Chantal Sébire I mentioned at the end my surprise upon learning that the illness she had was in fact treatable,...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
The tragic case of Chantal SÉbire’s suicide has taken another twist: she refused treatment for her disease for nearly half a decade Share This
TIME: Top World Stories (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
The tragic case of Chantal SÉbire's suicide has taken another twist: she refused treatment for her disease for nearly half a decade
People Daily (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Chantal Sebire, a tumor-stricken French teacher whose request for euthanasia had been denied, died of an overdose of barbiturates, a French prosecutor said Thursday. Sebire, 52, was terminally-ill and severely disfigured with an inc ...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
The French woman who had sought the legal right to commit suicide to end the suffering caused by an incurable and disfiguring cancer killed herself with sleeping tablets, authorities said.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
Death of Chantal Sébire likely to result in a change in the law in France, allowing doctors a limited right to assist patient's suicide
