In a court document, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said it believes the group did cross that line into assisting the death in June of a Cumming man. John Celmer, 58, died of asphyxiation after inhaling helium while two Georgia members of the group were present, the GBI said. (Atlanta Journal-C...

See our splash tonight on the latest Dignitas suicide, this time of Peter and Penny Duff. In relation to this, The Times has obtained copies of the draft General Medical Council guidelines on treatment of the terminally ill. The medical profession is advised to give consideration to a dying patient&...

Rolling Stone magazine contained a mock interview with outgoing President George Bush that is - WARNING - offensive for sexual explicitness and foul language. Standard fare. But following is a section from the "interview" that is egregious to the memory of Terri Schindler Schiavo. Such contempt for ...

On Friday, Julie had to put down the little chick suffering from pasty butt. She wasn't getting any better, and was suffering a lot. So Julie researched how to do it as painlessly as possible, then did what she had......

In my piece for Pajamas Media, I said that basically, the meeting between The Pope and The Pelosi would produce no fireworks, and that “…the impact of this meeting may not be felt until it has been forgotten.” Well. Not quite. The Vatican - clearly as aware as Pelosi of the power o...

The case of Eluana Englaro, a woman in irreversible coma since 1992, is causing an institutional conflict in Italy, as well as a pitiful example of “insolence of office”. The story is long, and if you have not followed it on the newspapers, it is hard for me to summarize its salient poin...

Euthanasia is a false solution to suffering, the real answer is to testify to the love that helps us face pain and agony in a humane way. That was Pope Benedict XVIs message to the faithful gathered in St Peters square before todays Angelus prayer. The Pope noted that Christ died on the cross for lo...

Promo video for "The First To Go" by Nabil Shaban an original theatre play about disabled people in Nazi Germany read more...

(Tim; this from and by Rev. David Wegener of Ndola, Zambia)* * *This is an open letter from an American Reformed Christian living in Africa to my African Christian friends on the occasion of the Inauguration of Barack Obama as......

(Tim) Last week, Nat Hentoff was laid off at the (Greenwich) Village Voice. This brings an abrupt end to Hentoff's fifty year run there, appropriately and affectionately titled "Fifty Years of Pissing People Off" by fellow Voice columnist Allen Barra......