In a statement Honda said the "activity was contrary to our existing policy and procedure" but it "sincerely regrets the injuries which Mr Santos has suffered".

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The existing law will now remain in force while further discussions on procedure are held, our correspondent says.

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One of the most promising proposed solutions, and one which rests somewhere between the two extremes, is a procedure analogous to organ donation (and not unlike existing social-media privacy settings) by which social-media services would prompt users to check a box indicating their postmortem instructions for social-media asset disposition.

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When your private insurance company does not cover a procedure, a medicine, or denies care because of a pre-existing condition, that is rationing.

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Most of the few existing assisted-suicide laws rely on the principle of active and informed consent to a procedure that may, or will, lead to death.

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