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A dark-humored Web site offers despairing Facebook users a way out of the social network. The Seppukoo.com Web site Lets people hoping to leave the popular social-networking site commit "Facebook seppuku" in five easy steps.
Mandatory pet-sterilization laws do work to combat pet overpopulation, although it may take a few years, according to officials in other California counties that have implemented such programs.
The single drug Ohio is preparing to use for its new execution method has a storied history in psychiatry, criminal interrogation and war.
Odds and ends . . . Sheriff's deputies used a Taser, an electric stun gun attached to wires with barbs, on a 10-year-old boy this week.
Garland Animal Services officials say they're on target to meet a goal of shifting the euthanization of 3,000 animals from gas to lethal injection next year.
Barring a successful legal challenge, sodium pentothal will be used Tuesday on Kenneth Biros, who would become the first person in the United States put to death with a single drug.
COLUMBUS (AP) - The single drug Ohio is preparing to use for its new execution method has a storied history in psychiatry, criminal interrogation and war. Barring a successful legal challenge, sodium pentothal will be used Tuesday on Kenneth Biros, who would become the first person in the United States put to death with a single drug.
The Chieftain would like to clarify an article in Friday's newspaper about health care providers and assisted suicide, which is illegal in the state.
WASHINGTON — Some people can’t stand prosperity, my father used to say. Today, he might be talking about Republicans, who, in the midst of declining support for President Barack Obama’s hope-and-change agenda, are considering a “purity” pledge to weed out undesirables from their ever-shrinking party.
The Netherlands has become the first nation since Hitler’s Germany to legalize euthanasia — the direct killing of patients by physicians. There are restrictions.
The issue of assisted suicide surfaced in Pueblo this week when an 18-year-old man was arrested for allegedly supplying the gun his father used to kill himself.
Looking back over this past year, it is heartening to learn that our Ventura County animal shelter successfully adopted out over 4,000 animals to new homes.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: From Rousseau to Locke, the foundational thinkers of our society have had their disagreements concerning our inalienable rights, but one has remained a centerpiece in the modern era - life.
You can give the gift of an animal this season, but make sure your gift is in the form of a certificate. As Volunteer TVs Rebecca Solomon found out, it's a bad idea to adopt an animal for someone else, especially as the euthanasia rates rise.
LONDON -- The bishops of England and Wales said Britain's chief prosecutor is encouraging people to break the country's suicide laws.
Keith Stewart recently claimed in these pages that he lives an irresponsible life, smoking, drinking, riding motorcycles -- actually, it sounds like he's having a great time. He said that it's his right to die the way he wants to, without health insurance, and he doesn't want to owe or be owed anything by anyone else.
