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Oregon Prostate Cancer Patient Wants to Keep Death Options Open
c. 2005 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ With prostate cancer spreading to his liver and bones, Don James knows he is unlikely to be around when the U.S. Supreme Court rules on his right to a doctor's help in ending his life.
He plans to follow through soon on his request fo...
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NEWS STORY: Aid Worker Dan Simmons Has Been Going to a Lot of Funerals Lately
c. 2003 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM _ Dan Simmons, director of World Vision in Israel and the Palestinian territories, has been visiting Israel, the West Bank and Gaza regularly for the last 23 years. But he says this current period is the worst he has experienced in terms of bo...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 2000 Religion News Service
Annan Defends Exclusion of Dalai Lama at UN Religion Summit
(RNS) UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is defending the decision to not invite the Dalai Lama to next week's historic summit of religious leaders, saying the United Nations is ``a house for...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 2000 Religion News Service
Annan Defends Exclusion of Dalai Lama at UN Religion Summit
(RNS) UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is defending the decision to not invite the Dalai Lama to next week's historic summit of religious leaders, saying the United Nations is ``a house for...
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NEWS STORY: L.A. Cardinal Calls for `Moral Revolution’ Against Death Penalty
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The leader of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese said Thursday (May 25) that recent reassessments of the death penalty may signal the beginning of a long, slow death for capital punishment.
Cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of th...
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NEWS FEATURE: Experts: Assisted Suicide More a Matter of Control Than of Pain Relief
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Diagnosed with cancer of the mouth, the cigar-smoking genius with the larger-than-life ego persuaded his doctor to euthanize him when the time was right.
When Sigmund Freud decided the time was right _ 16 years after the diagnosis _ Dr. M...
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NEWS STORY: L.A. Cardinal Calls for `Moral Revolution’ Against Death Penalty
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The leader of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese said Thursday (May 25) that recent reassessments of the death penalty may signal the beginning of a long, slow death for capital punishment.
Cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of th...
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NEWS FEATURE: Experts: Assisted Suicide More a Matter of Control Than of Pain Relief
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Diagnosed with cancer of the mouth, the cigar-smoking genius with the larger-than-life ego persuaded his doctor to euthanize him when the time was right.
When Sigmund Freud decided the time was right _ 16 years after the diagnosis _ Dr. M...
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NEWS FEATURE: Public TV Takes on `Taboo’ Issue of Death and Dying
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Social issues, from childbirth to sexuality, are ``out of the closet.'' Yet, talking about death is still taboo, say experts on death and dying. But two upcoming public television shows, ``On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying'' and ``Final Blessi...
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NEWS FEATURE: Religions Changing Attitudes on suicide
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Recently, The Rev. Charles Rubey, a priest with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, talked with a mother whose son had committed suicide. The woman poured out her grief to him. But what made her anguish even more excruciating, Ru...
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