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NEWS FEATURE: Suicide prevention crusader now fights for right to die
c. 1997 Religion News Service
SAN MATEO, Calif. _ For more than three decades, Charlotte Ross devoted her life to saving lives, first as executive director of a leading suicide-prevention facility, and later as head of the Youth Suicide National Center in Washington, D.C.
So some...
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NEWS FEATURE: Children of Holocaust survivors remember and weep
c. 1996 Religion News Service
BURBANK, Calif. (RNS)-Adolf Hitler's"final solution"focused not only on the physical extermination of Jews, but also on a nightmarish dream to wipe out all trace of Jewish life and culture.
At a small hotel gathering here this past weekend (May 17-18)...
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TOP STORY: EUTHANASIA: Despite aided suicide’s new visibility, major faiths have long opposed
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Acquitted Tuesday (May 14) of violating Michigan law against assisted suicide, Dr. Jack Kevorkian wasted no time in drawing a distinction between the religious and secular dimensions of euthanasia."What this proves is that, while this may be a sin...
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NEWS FEATURE: Timothy Leary may be planning public suicide on the Internet
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Timothy Leary may be about to kill himself-live on the Internet-and his old friend Ken Kesey, for one, says he's planning to watch.
``It will be stimulating,'' says Kesey, the author whose association with Leary goes back 30 years to his days as...
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COMMENTARY: Suddenly, the hospital room is a moral arena
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-Two recent federal court decisions on physician-assisted suicide have raised profound questions for America's religious communities, issues that many...
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COMMENTARY: Lights are dimming in the city on a hill
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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Methodist bishop served as juror in Kevorkian trial
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Bishop Donald Ott is accustomed to leading Michigan's United Methodists, but for the last few weeks, he had a different job: foreman of the jury that acquitted Dr. Jack Kevorkian Friday (March 8) in Pontiac, Mich., of illegally aiding suicides.
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TOP STORY: ASSISTED SUICIDE
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-For many Americans, doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients has only begun to emerge as a high-profile public issue, on a par with abortion and capital punishment.
But after two major legal developments this week upholding...
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COMMENTARY: Ambivalent feelings about the right to die
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Robert F. Drinan is a Jesuit priest, former member of Congress and professor of law at Georgetown University.)
(RNS)-Whatever the verdict may be in Dr. Jack Kevorkian's trial on charges of violating Michigan's ban on assisted suicide, his conviction...
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Murder victims’ families live with agonies that never heal
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS (RNS)-The death penalty debate yields a bitter side effect-the fresh agonies it inflicts on victims' families, who are trying to heal the most fearful emotional wounds.
Moral arguments over the basic dignity even of killers, doubts about j...
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