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Now 77, Nitschke first explored the idea of delegating assisted suicide to machines in the 1990s.Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
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There are unresolved controversies: Should assisted suicide be legal as Michigan's Dr. Jack Kevorkian advocated and carried out?Jamie L. LaReau, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
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DJ Anne Harris is largely focused on mercy killing her relationship with Siobhan for Siobhan’s own good.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2021
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The doctor carried out the mercy killing with her family’s consent and support.Washington Post, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
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At Venice, Almodóvar spoke passionately in defence of euthanasia.Alex Ritman, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
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Over the last couple of years, the poultry industry — in its efforts to stamp out the spread of bird flu — has killed tens of millions of animals by closing vents and cranking up the heat so the birds slowly die by heatstroke, the most cost-effective, and cruelest, form of mass euthanasia.Kenny Torrella, Vox, 16 Sep. 2024
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“Physician-assisted suicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/physician-assisted%20suicide. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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