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Marlise Munoz: Who She Was, the Legal Case, and Lasting Implications

Marlise Munoz was a 33-year-old Texas paramedic who was 14 weeks pregnant when she collapsed in November 2013 and was pronounced brain dead at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort...

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Brittany Maynard death: verified facts, timeline, and context

Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old resident of California, was diagnosed with stage IV glioblastoma in January 2014. She and her husband moved to Oregon to access the state's Death...

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Netherlands Euthanasia: Laws, Requirements, and Safeguards

Euthanasia in the Netherlands is the intentional ending of a person’s life by a doctor or another healthcare professional at the explicit, voluntary, and repeated request of a...

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