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Netherlands Now Has Traveling Euthanasia Squads

Kevin Spak — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:58:05 CST

It has just become easier for the Dutch to get fatal house calls. The Right to Die-NL group yesterday launched a mobile euthanasia service, the AFP reports. Six doctor-and-nurse teams will crisscross the country performing mercy killings for patients whose doctors refuse to do so—provided they meet the Netherlands'...

Report: PETA Kills 95% of Pets It Takes In

Matt Cantor — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:31:49 CST

PETA's controversial campaigns for animal rights dominate headlines—but behind the scenes, the picture is quite different, according to newly released documents. Last year, the organization killed more than 95% of the pets in its charge at its Norfolk, Va., headquarters, the Daily Caller reports. Documents released by the state's...

'Miracle Dog' Survives Gas Chamber

John Johnson — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:38:33 CDT

Eighteen dogs went into the gas chamber at an Alabama shelter, but when an employee opened the door to collect the bodies, out walked Daniel the beagle, wagging his tail. Now Daniel is being hailed as a "miracle dog" and getting a second chance at a New Jersey shelter called...

Rottweiler Comes Back From the Dead

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:31:41 CDT

A Detroit man tried to have his dog euthanized, only to find her the next morning in the garage where he’d left her body—standing on all fours. "Are you still my dog?" he said to her. "It was like a scene from Pet Sematary ," he tells the Detroit News...

Illinois Gov: My Opponent Wants to Murder Doggies

Rob Quinn — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:53:19 CDT

Illinois' Democratic governor isn't doing much to change the state's reputation for bare-knuckle politics. An attack ad from Pat Quinn targets Republican rival Bill Brady for sponsoring a bill to "mass euthanize sheltered cats and dogs in gas chambers," with text appearing on screen over footage of whining puppies being...

Germany OKs Assisted Suicide in Some Cases

Kevin Spak — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:15:00 CDT

A German court made a landmark ruling in favor of euthanasia today, overturning the conviction of a lawyer who’d advised a family to cut a comatose relation’s feeding tube. The patient, 71-year-old Erika Kuellmer, had made it clear she didn’t want to be kept alive if she ever fell into...

Post Snags 4 Pulitzers, Times 3; Enquirer Shut Out

M. Morris — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:06:46 CDT

The Washington Post won four Pulitzer Prizes today, one more than the archrival New York Times —and four more than the National Enquirer, which entered its coverage of the John Edwards sex scandal . In a breakthrough for online journalism, Sheri Fink of ProPublica won for an investigation of euthanasia at...

BBC Announcer: 'I Smothered Dying Lover'

Rob Quinn — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:56:30 CST

British police plan to investigate a BBC presenter's confession that he smothered a lover who was dying of AIDS. "In a hospital one hot afternoon, the doctor said, ’There’s nothing we can do’. He was in terrible, terrible pain," Ray Gosling revealed in a program on mortality broadcast last night....

Aussies Bicker Over How to Murder Toads

Harry Kimball — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:07:05 CST

Residents of Western Australia, Oz’s largest state, are incensed by a government mandate that might seem odd to those in, say, Kansas: When engaged in the mass killing of cane toads, use the cricket bat instead of the bag of carbon dioxide. Aussies have long made a sport of cane...