If voluntary euthanasia at the end of life becomes more widely accepted, it is likely that society's disapproval of suicide in general will come under greater scrutiny, if only because the dividing line between suicide in the case of the terminally ill and other kinds of suicide will become more blurred.

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He wanted independence for Scotland, he was president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society and, at 80, he brought out a book dismissing the beliefs on which Christianity was founded as "preposterous".

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Allegations of euthanasia at Memorial first surfaced a week after the hurricane.

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