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A New Fight to Legalize Euthanasia (TIME)

Mon, 19 May 2008 20:07:58 GMT

... Mason is ready for death. Since last December, the 65-year-old writer has kept four small bott... Chantal Sébire is dead, but the debate she ignited over French laws prohibiting victims of terminal... Nathan Brooks, who at the last minute accompanied a woman on her first drug deal, is serving a twent... Booth Gardner, who served as Washington's governor for two terms in the 1980s...

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Euthanasia still a dilemma for Dutch doctors (Mail & Guardian)

Wed, 07 May 2008 07:46:31 GMT

... by a non-doctor, activists elsewhere in Europe are fighting for decriminalisation.The case of Chantal Sebire, a woman with a face-distorting tumour who was refused assisted suicide, rekindled the debate in France. Sebire was found dead of an overdose at home in March days after a court rejected her bid for medical help to die.The mercy killing of Belgian writer Hugo Claus,...

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Gay Marriage Costs Him Citizenship (TIME: Top World Stories)

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:25:00 GMT

... near Paris has ruled that six French aid workers convicted in Chad and sentenced to an eight... Chantal Sébire is dead, but the debate she ignited over French laws prohibiting victims of terminal... She may be better remembered as the revolutionary sex kitten of 1960s French cinema, but these days ... If social and political conservatives tend to be more cautious about Pan-European...

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Helping Human-Animals to Die (Technoccult)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:28:19 GMT

... who has lived their life through choice, have that option available to them? “A French woman, Chantal Sebire with a disfiguring and painful terminal illness recently failed in her appeal for medical assistance to help her to die. Before her death Chantal Sebire was quoted as saying “We wouldn’t let an animal go through what I have had to endure”. Euthanasia for animals...

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French Woman Fooled the World on Assisted Suicide Request (jillstanek.com)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:43:03 GMT

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,...

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Euthanasia: a continent divided (baithak)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:51:00 GMT

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....

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'Right to die' (BBC News)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:09:54 GMT

Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (a former doctor) is one of a number of senior politicians who favour a legal right to euthanasia in rare cases. He argued it was wrong that Chantal Sebire should have to "commit suicide in a clandestine way, which would cause suffering to everyone, especially her loved ones".

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Euthanasia: a continent divided (BBC News)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:09:54 GMT

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French Euthanasia Case Rumbles On (bioethics.com)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:08:12 GMT

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 [...]

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Dying For A Cause (GalliaWatch)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:46:00 GMT

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...

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French Euthanasia Case Rumbles On (OTB News)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:53:31 GMT

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

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French Euthanasia Case Rumbles On (TIME: Top World Stories)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:53:18 GMT

The tragic case of Chantal SÉbire's suicide has taken another twist: she refused treatment for her disease for nearly half a decade

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French woman denied euthanasia died of overdose on barbiturates (People Daily)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:53:53 GMT

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 ...

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Woman Refused Right-to-Die Took Her Own Life (Fox News)

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:31:18 GMT

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.

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Emotions run high over right-to-die case (The Guardian)

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:02:15 GMT

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

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Woman Who Suffered From Esthesioneuroblastoma (ShoutWire.com)

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:48:40 GMT

Picture of woman (Chantal Sebire) who suffered from esthesioneuroblastoma. She was found dead at her home and was the center of an ongoing and controversial 'right to die' case.

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Around the world: China issues most wanted list; troops push to contain unrest (Detroit Free Press)

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:51:00 GMT

... FRANCE: Woman's autopsy results inconclusiveResults were inconclusive after an autopsy on Chantal Sebire, whose body was found days after authorities denied her euthanasia request, prosecutor Jean-Pierre Alacchi said Friday.Sebire, a former teacher who died Wednesday, had an illness that apparently defied treatment. A tumor had burrowed through her sinuses and nasal cavities,...

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The End Of Transcendence (GalliaWatch)

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:04:00 GMT

The websites are immersed in discussions about euthanasia, following the death of Chantal Sébire . These startling comments by Jean-Marie Le Guen , a doctor and a socialist deputy from the 9th arrondissement of Paris reveal the callous left-wing agenda underlying the current push for legalized euthanasia. Yves Daoudal reports: Euthanasia is a human right that finally abolishes the idea...

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Tumour woman death not natural (BBC News)

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:47:00 GMT

Ms Sebire said she would find the drugs she needed to help her die.A French woman with an incurable tumour who lost a legal challenge seeking euthanasia did not die of natural causes, her postmortem has found.Former schoolteacher Chantal Sebire, a mother of three, was found dead on Wednesday after a court rejected her request to let doctors help her die. Ms Sebire's tumour...

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French tumour death not natural (BBC News)

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:47:00 GMT

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