France: Doctors Petition for Euthanasia (New York Times)


More than 2,000 French doctors and nurses have signed a petition admitting that they had helped terminally ill patients die and calling on the government to legalize euthanasia. The petition, which was published Thursday in the newsmagazine Le Nouvel Observateur, comes days before the trial of a doctor and a nurse charged with administering a fatal dose of potassium to a woman suffering from ...

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