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  2. West Virginia Voters Passed a Constitutional Amendment ...

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    The race was not called until more than a week after Election Day, with 50.4 percent of the vote in favor of the constitutional amendment, which bans "the practice of medically assisted suicide ...

  3. Assisted suicide in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Assisted suicide in the United States was brought to public attention in the 1990s with the highly publicized case of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Kevorkian assisted over 40 people in dying by suicide in Michigan. [12] His first public assisted suicide was in 1990, of Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old woman diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in 1989.

  4. Vacco v. Quill - Wikipedia

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    Vacco v. Quill, 521 U.S. 793 (1997), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the right to die.It ruled 9–0 that a New York ban on physician-assisted suicide was constitutional, and preventing doctors from assisting their patients, even those terminally ill and/or in great pain, was a legitimate state interest that was well within the authority of the state ...

  5. Assisted dying bill - latest: Esther Rantzen reacts to ... - AOL

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    “Legalising assisted suicide would diminish the value we ascribe to human life in our legislation and our institutions and create a two-tier society where suicide prevention doesn’t extend to ...

  6. State-assisted suicide - Wikipedia

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    State-assisted suicide was a popular method in medieval and Enlightenment era Scandinavia, [citation needed] where religion forbade suicide and suicidees were prohibited from religious burial. The usual method was to kill an infant [ citation needed ] - infanticide was a capital crime; and infants, once baptized, were considered to be pure and ...

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  9. The Peaceful Pill Handbook - Wikipedia

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    The Peaceful Pill Handbook is a book that provides information on assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. Written by the Australian doctor Philip Nitschke and lawyer Fiona Stewart, it was originally published in the U.S. in 2006. A German edition of the print book—Die Friedliche Pille—was published in 2011.