Sa mère est morte il y a six ans, mais Bernard Bruyère, 67 ans, ingénieur à la retraite, parle encore des conditions de son décès avec souffrance. En 2011, après l'affaire Bonnemaison (ce médecin soupçonné d'avoir provoqué la mort de patients), il avait écrit au courrier des lecteurs du Monde pour témoigner et s'insurger contre la loi Leonetti qu'il juge "inappropriée et indigne".
Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William M. Arkin spent two years investigating the government's response to 9/11. Top Secret America explores what they found.
a 64-minute Internet documentary made anonymously in New Zealand, using Roy's speech and a montage of politically inflected imagery; new style of essayistic documentary; DVD at hi-res available
The Swiss government is considering restricting or even banning organised assisted suicide in an attempt to reduce so-called "death tourism". Swiss authorities want to ensure euthanasia is a last resort for the terminally ill, amid fears their current laws on assisted suicide could be open to abuse. A study last year suggested more and more people seeking help to die in Switzerland did not have a terminal illness. "We have no interest, as a country, in being attractive for suicide tourism," the Swiss justice minister, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, told reporters in Berne, adding that more foreigners were travelling to Switzerland to die.
The most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq will appear next Wednesday, a 90-minute PBS broadcast called "Buying the War,
Elderly people should be allowed to end their lives with the help of a doctor even if they are not terminally ill, according to a new campaign group that claims to have widespread support. The Society for Old Age Rational Suicide, led by a former GP known as “Dr Death”, says that pensioners should have the human right to declare “enough is enough” and die with dignity.
'Living wills' that stipulate exactly how a person wants to die should be drawn up with absolute clarity, a judge has ruled after concluding a 67-year-old man with motor neurone disease had made a "valid decision" to refuse treatment.
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