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Dame Helen Mirren may not actually be the Queen of England -- but proved worthy of throne with an act of kindness to a terminally ill 10-year-old cancer patient.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Terminally ill cancer patients who watched either of two videos about the option to forego resuscitation overwhelmingly elected that route for the patient in the video, if not for themselves, according to a new study.
reuters.com (26 days ago)
For cancer patients in Russia, who may be gravely ill or in severe pain, getting medication to relieve the agony often turns into a bureaucratic nightmare.
sptimes.ru (14 days ago)
GLEN CARBON, Ill. (AP) - Investigators in southwestern Illinois are trying to find the person who stole a restaurant's countertop jar that was accepting donations for a cancer patient.
thetelegraph.com (3 months and 1 day ago)
A grandmother has been given a suspended sentence for killing her terminally ill former partner.
independent.co.uk (4 days ago)
GLEN CARBON, Ill. (AP) — Investigators in southwestern Illinois are trying to find the person who stole a restaurant's countertop jar that was accepting donations for a cancer patient. read more
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont is close to joining Oregon, Washington and Montana as states allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who request it.
yahoo.com (8 days ago)

Dying cancer patients have been "betrayed" by a decision to drastically scale back treatments for the terminally ill, charities have said.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 16 days ago)
DOCTORS could be allowed to give terminally ill patients fatal drugs to enable them to kill themselves, under new legislation passing through Parliament.
dailyexpress.co.uk (6 days ago)
A terminally ill man is starving himself to death to protest against the law that prevents doctors or relatives from helping...
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