104 year old man assisted dying

BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Newsletter Signup World By Pritha Paul @ZiggyZina143 05/10/18 AT 6:35 AM David Goodall, 104, an Australian man, plans to end his own life with the option of a medical assisted suicide in Switzerland.Goodall, a British-born ecologist, said he was an advocate for assisted suicide and believes the process should be made legal everywhere.“I greatly regret having reached that age,” Goodall said in an interview earlier this month, the Guardian reported. “I’m not happy. I want to die. It’s not sad particularly. What is sad is if one is prevented."Although assisted suicide is legal in some countries, Switzerland is the only place which accepts foreign nationals for the life-ending process. Lifecircle, a small assisted suicide advocacy group based in Basel, is a medical facility that tends to non-Swiss people too.“Lifecircle is committed to the dignity of mankind as well as to … [Read more...] about What Is Suicide Clinic? 104-Year-Old Man Sings His Way To Assisted Death

Editor’s Note:When this article was posted online on December 12, 2007, it was titled “Lawyers of the Year 2007 and 2008.” The article defined that term as the year’s biggest legal newsmaker, identifying former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as the major newsmaker of 2007. The Journal regrets that we did not make this theme clear.We appreciate the feedback we’ve received, and we’re acting on it. So that there can be no confusion, the term “Lawyers of the Year” has been changed in the headline and story to “Newsmakers of the Year.” The story is otherwise unchanged from its original version.This article, like all in the Journal, is the work of the magazine’s editorial staff. As is the magazine’s practice, it was not reviewed by the Journal’s volunteer Board of Editors, the ABA’s Board of Governors, or its officers, prior to publication. The Journal will continue to strive to provide high … [Read more...] about Newsmakers of the Year 2007 and 2008

The little girl with the Shirley Temple curls clung to her father, too frightened to cry.She and her parents were aboard the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which began listing badly and taking on water shortly after scraping along a rocky reef off Italy’s Tuscan coast and gouging a bus-size hole in the port side just below the water line.A year and half later, the silent child still makes a lasting impression on Georgia and Dean Ananias, a Downey, Calif., couple aboard the ship when it capsized on the night of Jan. 13, 2012. They were traveling with their adult daughters, Valerie and Cindy.After trying to escape the ship for nearly five hours, the Ananiases believed they had only minutes left to live. They said their goodbyes and steeled themselves for the inevitable. “We knew we were going to die,” says Georgia.The Ananias family describes being indelibly scarred by the thought of impending death and the screams of horror all around them. They are also haunted by the … [Read more...] about For vacationers encountering trouble on cruise ships, U.S. laws may provide little help