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right-to-die

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right-to-die
adj.
Advocating or expressing, as in a living will, a person's right to refuse extraordinary life-sustaining measures intended to prolong life artificially when the person is deemed by his or her physicians to be terminally or incurably ill.
right-to-die
Medical ethics A philosophical stance essentially equivalent to a DNR order, to be honored outside of a hospital or health care setting. See Do not resuscitate.
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Byline: GEORGINA O'HALLORAN A RIGHT-to-die activist and his partner were present when a woman took her own life, a jury at an inquest has found.
Rev Exoo 'present at suicide' INQUEST by The Mirror (London, England)
Summary: The 38-year-old comatose woman at the centre of an Italian right-to-die case has died, a clinic has said.
Italian woman in right-to-die case dies by Independent Television News Limited (ITN)
Eluana Englaro, the woman at the centre of a right-to-die drama that has gripped Italy, died on Monday, the health minister announced on Italian television.
Italian at centre of euthanasia furore has died: minister by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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