The Longest Night By Otto de Kat Translated by Laura Watkinson MacLehose Press, 168 pages, $22.99 Emma, the sympathetic protagonist of Otto de Kat’s “The Longest Night,” is 96 and ready to say goodbye to her life. But first she will relive it, re-experiencing her emotions, debating her choices. A nurse is at her side,…
AMSTERDAM — Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs urged his country’s government to drop plans to legalize assisted suicide for healthy individuals. Jacobs was reacting to a statement made earlier this week in the Tweede Kamer, the Dutch lower house, by the country’s health minister announcing planned legislation designed to broaden existing laws on assisted suicide…
Some 300,000 people with physical or mental disabilities who were killed under Nazi Germany’s “euthanasia” program because their lives were deemed unworthy were commemorated on Tuesday with the opening of a memorial in Berlin. Relatives of the victims joined Mayor Klaus Wowereit and members of the public to lay wreaths and white roses in front…
A Knesset committee approved a physician-assisted suicide bill. The bill passed the Ministerial Committee on Legislation Sunday by a vote of 8 to 2. The vote was appealed Monday by Senior Citizens Minister Uri Orbach of the Jewish Home party, who called the bill a “pill of death.” The bill allows a doctor to prescribe…
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