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Associated Press - November 10, 2009 11:05 AM ET CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A New Hampshire House committee has voted against a bill to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
In September, debates about the constitutionality of physician-assisted suicide took off in the Montana Supreme Court in Helena. A panel of ethicists and professors discussed the issue in the Gallagher Business Building Monday night.
It's an issue almost every pet owner confronts at some time: How do you know when it's time to have your animal euthanized?
A House committee plans to make its recommendation tomorrow on a state bill to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire House committee plans to make its recommendation Tuesday on a bill to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
News that appeared Nov. 1 to 7 in The Washington Post and on washingtonpost.com that is of interest to readers in Prince William.
Funeral arrangements have been set for one of two Forest Park students who died in a suicide pact this week
D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) has introduced a bill that would ban more than a dozen hazardous chemicals from being sold in the District, the Examiner reports . Among the materials listed in the proposed ban: Mattresses and furniture containing polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, which act as flame retardents; food or beverage containers intended for children younger than 6 that ...
Two years have passed since we last saw Portuguese vocalist Mariza , who delivered a memorable performance at the Music Center at Strathmore . The Queen of Fado , as Mariza is known, will be performing this Sunday evening at the Lisner Auditorium . She is the world's most prominent exponent of a style rooted in history and tradition, but fado clearly has universal appeal. Over the past decade ...
Two Prince William County teens who were found dead in a Triangle, Va. home on Monday died as the result of a suicide pact, the Post is reporting . Police say they may never know what prompted to Desiree Patrick, 17, and Quirinius Williams, 18, to kill themselves together, but these comments from Williams' stepfather, Ruben Aguilar, are fairly haunting: Aguilar said he had never met Patrick but ...
For a theater department at a college the best of all possible worlds is finding a play that can be educational without preaching to an audience. With that in mind, it appears Russell Sage College in Troy has struck gold this week as it offers the provocative and entertaining "Whose Life Is It Anyway?"
MANATEE — Every Thursday, staff members from the Humane Society of Manatee County drop by the county pound to select dogs and cats to put up for adoption.
School officials tell parents to watch for signs of sadness, behavior changes in wake of Forest Park suicides
WOODBRIDGE — Police say two Forest Park High School students found dead Monday in Triangle had agreed to commit suicide.
An elderly British couple who wrote a letter to the BBC criticizing UK laws on assisted suicides have been found dead at their home.
A teenage girl who apparently died as part of a suicide pact with her boyfriend in Prince William County formerly lived in Stafford County and attended Stafford High School. Desiree M. Patrick, 17, died along with her boyfriend, Quirinius S. Williams, 18, Monday, according to Prince William police....
