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- Help to die like a dog
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"If I was a dog, by now the . . . Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals would have me put down straight away."
Australian June Burns, who says she has suffered unbearable pain from bladder cancer, in a television commercial begging for a change in Australian law to permit assisted suicide. The commercials began airing in March in Sydney, reports the Associated Press.
Burns says she made the commercial because she watched her father die of bladder cancer and doesn't want to go through it herself. "Soon I will be in such pain and distress that my life won't be worth living,'' says the 54-year old Burns in the commercial. "I don't want to have to kill myself, but if nobody can help me, I'm going to have to."
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- All access, all the time--not!
- "There's nothing that says everyone can have access all the time." Oakland County, Michigan access coordinator Pam Creighton, responding to a reporter's questions in the wake of Michigan ADAPT member Rhonda Ferrero's success in pushing Oakland County Circuit Court officials to make Circuit Judge Jessica Cooper's courtroom accessible, as required under the ADA, in time for Kevorkian's trial.
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