assisted suicide

Voters in Zurich have overwhelmingly rejected proposals to ban assisted suicide or to limit the practice to residents of the Swiss city.

A woman with multiple sclerosis is due to find out whether the Law Lords have backed her bid to clarify the law on assisted suicide.

British conductor Edward Downes and his wife Qiongtang Si went to Switzerland, in an assisted suicide clinic euthanasia.

Assisted suicide has been allowed in Switzerland since 1941 if performed by a non-physician who has no vested interest in the death.

Since doctors are trained to prolong life, they usually do not elect to take it by prescribing assisted suicide.

However, it barely mentions euthanasia or assisted suicide, which remain illegal despite calls for a change in the law.

"If you help someone with an assisted suicide, it is a very big responsibility, " explained Exit's Vice-President Bernhard Sutter.

"In other countries, assisted suicide is regarded as wrong. It is illegal, " he said.

Voters in Zurich, Switzerland, overwhelmingly rejected proposed bans on assisted suicide and "suicide tourism" , local media reported.

The United States Supreme Court in 2006 ruled that medical self-management by the states, including assisted suicide.

Mr Bretscher is against both proposals, and brings his own personal experience of assisted suicide to the campaign.

decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.

The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.

Switzerland is considering restricting or banning organised assisted suicide to reduce so-called "death tourism" .

Many people from around the world travel to Zurich each year to end their lives because assisted suicide is illegal in their own countries.

The issue of physician-assisted suicide causes strong feeling on both sides of the debate.

Well, could be mercy killing, assisted suicide or outright murder.

the Supreme Court strongly opposes physician-assisted suicide.

But public interest in the rights and wrongs of assisted suicide and the different "mercy killing" is intense.

Should doctor-assisted suicide ever be a legal option?

In surveys, more than 80% of Britons say assisted suicide should be legalized.

Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland provided the helper doesn't personally benefit from a patient's death.

But in the state of Oregon, where they have access to physician-assisted suicide but not euthanasia, it's well under 1 per cent.

1 - Please clarify what happens when in a coma or assisted suicide is requested.

But the tussle over assisted suicide will not go away.

Two clauses in the bill concern assisted suicide.

In the Netherlands, doctor-assisted suicide was legalised in 2002.

About 200 people commit assisted suicide each year in Zurich.

Some people think that physician-assisted suicide can relieve dying patients of unbearable pain and suffering.

Advocates of assisted suicide and euthanasia find a role model in Holland.

Do you believe in assisted suicide?

At the time of Kevorkian's death, only Oregon and Washington state had legalized physician-assisted suicide;

The argument over assisted suicide may have helped Americans recognize the ways in which medicine,

Would you consider physician-assisted suicide