The ruling also gave permission for Gloria Taylor, one of five plaintiffs, to seek doctor-assisted suicide.

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Last November Oregon voters strongly approved a ballot initiative allowing doctor-assisted suicide.

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The moral thrust of doctor-assisted suicide is the equivalent of telling someone standing on the edge of a bridge or building to jump.

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But he lost out to Al Pacino, who scooped a rare TV award for his role as an advocate of doctor-assisted suicide in You Don't Know Jack.

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The Dutch parliament is currently considering a bill which would make permanent a 15-year experiment in allowing doctor-assisted suicide by codifying in law regulations which have governed such practices.

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In a recent Populus poll for the Times, three-quarters of those who responded supported a change in the law to allow doctor-assisted suicide (which doctors themselves are not keen on).

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The ethos of doctor-assisted suicide is profoundly wrong.

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Cathy Ludlum, of Manchester, a disabled-rights activist who has spinal muscular atrophy, said she is concerned the Public Health Committee has decided to hold the public hearing and worries the issue of doctor-assisted suicide will not go away soon.

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