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Assisted suicide: 'Tragedy my son could not die at home'
The mother of a man who travelled to Switzerland to end his life said it was a "tragedy" he had been unable to choose to die at home.
Yvonne Colgan's 42-year-old son Andrew decided to end his life after nine years of living with multiple sclerosis, an incurable, progressive neurological condition.
Fighting for the right to die
NEW South Wale's longest serving Director of Public Prosecutions has backed a proposed bill that would protect spouses and doctors from being prosecuted for ending the life of a terminally ill patient.
Couple's plea: allow 'exit plans'
The deaths of elderly Nelson couple Bob and Betty Jackson early this month, in what police say was a suicide and an assisted suicide, brought new attention to the question of ending life, and a fresh focus on the Nelson chapter of the voluntary euthanasia group Exit International. It also prompted a rural Nelson couple to come forward with their story. They talked to Bill Moore on Thursday.
Choosing when to go
His quality of life declining, Norman Morse wants all to know that he's made a very sane and sensible decision.
When he realized that school wasn't his thing, he dropped out of the College of William & Mary and took a job with a New York City real estate company, launching a career that spanned nearly 50 years.
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Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die
In a frank and personal documentary, author Sir Terry Pratchett considers how he might choose to end his life. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2008, Terry wants to know whether he might be able to end his life before his disease takes over.
Traveling to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland, Terry witnesses first hand the procedures set out for assisted death, and confronts the point at which he would have to take the lethal drug. Sir Terry Pratchett has made an emotional plea for the right to take his own life, saying: I live in hope I can jump before I am pushed.
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