Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Happy New Year? Assisted Suicide Allowed in Swiss Hospital as of Jan 1

What a way to ring in the New Year...

Lausanne, Jan. 03, 2006 (CNA) - Lausanne University Hospital has decided to permit assisted suicides, effective Jan. 1, and now other leading Swiss hospitals are also discussing permitting the procedure, reported Doctors For Life in a press release issued yesterday.

Though Swiss law initially did not allow doctors to kill their patients, the practice of euthanasia has been gradually extended from private groups into the public health care systems.
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