Monday, April 2, 2012

The Practice of Assisting Suicide is on the Rise in the U.S. and Abroad

On March 27th , the government of Switzerland released a report on the practice of assisting suicide with a dramatic conclusion: five out of every 1,000 resident deaths now involve assisting suicide. Swiss authorities recorded a steady rise of assisted suicides over the decade that records were kept.While assisting suicide is legal in only a tiny handful of jurisdictions both in the U.S. and abroad, the Swiss practice operates extra-legally. Assisting suicide in Switzerland is technically illegal, but the law on the matter punishes only those with selfish motives–which has turned out to be nearly impossible to prove in Swiss...

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http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2012/03/the-practice-of-assisting-suicide-is-on-the-rise-in-the-u-s-and-abroad/

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