A 53-year-old man, who threw his mother off of a balcony to her death because she was suffering from Alzheimers disease was cleared of murder by a judge who said he “acted out of love” – a decision that is raising troubling new ethical questions.
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Oregon Archbishop Weighs in on Impending Maynard Suicide
The drugs Brittany Maynard will take to end her life on November 1.
Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of the Diocese of Portland, Oregon says the kind of death chosen by 29 year-old brain cancer victim, Brittany Maynard, who is planning to die on Saturday, “sows confusion about the purpose of life and death”.
“Dr. Death” Admits to Killing Second Victim on CNN
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During a June 18 interview with CNN’s Larry King, convicted murderer Jack Kevorkian admitted to not only to killing the man for whom he spent eight years in prison, but also to a woman years earlier.
Montana To Allow Assisted Suicide
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
As a result of a judge’s ruling, Montana has become the third state to legalize physician-assisted suicide by allowing physicians to prescribe life-ending medication to terminally ill patients without threat of criminal prosecution. The man who brought the case died naturally on the same day the decision was handed down.
