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Pacino, other stars turn Pontiac into movie set [The Detroit News]
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091016/METRO02/910160382/1411/METRO02/Pacino—other-stars-turn-Pontiac-into-movie-set

The Detroit News describes filming on the set of "You Don't Know Jack"

"Good Death" a powerful, tearful show [Western Herald, Michigan]
http://www.westernherald.com/arts-and-entertianment/good-death-a-powerful-tearful-show/

Positive review of university theatre play about Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

Dr. Kevorkian brings crowd to life with speech [EuthaNEWSia, Sep. 23]
http://www.euthanewsia.ca/archive/2009/09/enid200909236150.4.html

Dr. Jack Kevorkian gave an "impassioned" speech to a sold-out crowd at Kutztown University on Sunday. His topic was "Civil Rights, Civil Disobedience and Criminal Justice". He urged attendees to speak up and unite on issues involving human rights, civil justice and euthanasia.

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Film "The Suicide Tourist" explores emotional world of assisted suicide [The Peninsula Gateway]
http://www.gateline.com/opinion/story/5356.html

Canadian John Zaritsky, the director, "said Gig Harbor will be only the third state in the country to show his film, despite having been screened in more than 20 countries worldwide. He believes assisted suicide is as difficult an issue for Americans as abortion. "It inflames the same passions," he said."

MPs clash over euthanasia legal advice [ABC News, AU]
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/15/2714642.htm

"The Greens Leader has accused the Government of preventing the Solicitor-General from providing written evidence to a recent parliamentary committee…. Attorney-General Lara Giddings defended her decision. "I certainly did not approve him providing written legal advice to the committee," she said."

Korea: Woman who won right to die in June has birthday [JoongAng Daily]
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2911316

"The comatose woman who had her artificial respirator removed in June after a court ruled that she would have opted for "death with dignity," celebrated her 77th birthday yesterday."

If ever there were proof of the folly of doctors playing God, it's this man's barbaric death [Daily Mail]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1220221/ROS-COWARD-If-proof-folly-doctors-playing-God-mans-barbaric-death.html

British man wrongly diagnosed with cancer had pneumonia. Untreated, he died unnecessarily. The Daily Mail portrays it as a scandal.

Nurse "addicted" to suicide chat rooms [Ottawa Citizen, Canwest]
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Nurse+addicted+suicide+chat+rooms/2022616/story.html

Recapitulation of the story cited as the stimulus for Motion 388 in the Canadian House of Commons. "Man felt "guilty" after allegedly coaxing Carleton student to kill herself, documents say."

World Church: End-of-Life Issues Perplexing, Revealing, Adventist Ethicist Says [Adventist News Network]
http://news.adventist.org/2006/02/worl-church-e-of-life-issues-perplexig-revealig-avetist-ethicist-says.html

""But that's a struggle for the physician, and I hope you can sense that it's going to continue to be a struggle," Carr said. "We [the Seventh-day Adventist Church] do have a statement on the care for the dying; you can find it on our Web site. And in that statement it says that Adventists don't engage in physician-assisted suicide. But you know, again, we're very Protestant, and when the central office [world church headquarters] of our church says this … it doesn't mean, necessarily, that every Seventh-day Adventist [is] going to do it, or not do it, just because the General Conference [world church headquarters] says so." He added, "I think the church can provide some very well-crafted statements that can guide people's thinking. But beyond that, our church does not dictate to its members what they should or should not believe or do.""

Widow feels it's time to go [Times Herald-Record, NY]
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091012/COMM/910120318

"Profile of Mildred Kaitz of Monticello, 95 years old, who once cared for others, does not want others to have to care for her. And that is why Mildred Kaitz wants to die."

Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve [Times Online]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6869646.ece

Alleged misuse of the Liverpool Care Pathway nearly results in pneumonia patient's death.

Terminally ill grandmother left to starve by doctors [Telegraph]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6298866/Terminally-ill-grandmother-left-to-starve-by-doctors.html

"Hazel Fenton, an 80-year-old grandmother who was placed under a controversial care plan and left to "starve to death" after doctors identified her as being terminally ill, only recovered after the intervention of her daughter."

Vatican: City of love of Mangalore where the elderly defeat euthanasia [AsiaNews.it]
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=16560&geo=2&size=A

"Sister Auxilia works at Premnagar, the city of love, a home for the elderly poor of Bajjodi, near Mangalore in Karnataka. She tells AsiaNews: "Euthanasia is the biggest devil in the world. Our seniors are a great treasure, their life experience is an asset to society and for all of us older people are a blessing. ""

Doctors Deserve Assisted Suicide Answer [Hartford Courant]
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-assisted-suicide-law.art.artoct11,0,7151775.story

Editorial about the Connecticut lawsuit: "They and other physicians who treat terminally ill patients who are suffering deserve an answer. But that answer should come not from the courts, but from the people, through their elected representatives in the General Assembly. The legislature should take up the question, hold hearings and then vote —  which it has never done before — on whether physicians can legally prescribe a medication that a terminally ill, mentally competent person could choose to take to end his or her life."

Norfolk coroner speaks out over "right to die" case [Norwich Evening News, UK]
http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED09%20Oct%202009%2017%3A14%3A37%3A240

"But coroner William Armstrong said his view that doctors acted correctly was "not a moral judgment, it was a judgment based on the law". Contrary to widespread reports, he said that the letter written a few days before her death was not a living will, because it was not witnessed."

Televised assisted suicide reopens euthanasia debate [icenews.is, Iceland]
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/10/11/televised-assisted-suicide-reopens-euthanasia-debate/

Story on the Danish reaction to the TV2 story of Kaj Guldbech, a cancer sufferer who chose to end his life after living with an incurable case of pancreatic cancer.

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: What kind of country have we become if doctors and lawyers allow a disturbed young woman to die? [Daily Mail]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219389/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-What-kind-country-doctors-lawyers-allow-disturbed-young-woman-die.html?ITO=1490

A detailed review of the history and circumstances around the death of Kerrie Wooltorton, who was allowed to die after she had consumed anti-freeze. She carried a written document refusing medical treatment.

Christian Today: Nitschke testimony to Tas euthanasia inquiry reveals breach of law [Christian Today, AU]
http://au.christiantoday.com/article/nitschke-testimony-to-tas-euthanasia-inquiry-reveals-breach-of-law/7111.htm

Australian Christian Lobby says Dr Nitschke's testimony reveals that wrong kind of specialist examined patient before euthanasia.

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