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• Idaho Senate passes bill to make assisted suicide a felony

  March 12, 2011 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – The Idaho Senate voted overwhelmingly Friday to make assisted suicide a felony, revoke the licenses of doctors who violate the law and allow people to get injunctions to … 4

• Assisted suicide initative foes lose U.S. Supreme Court appeal

  February 23, 2011 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – The U.S. Supreme Court answered once and for all Tuesday whether a conservative group can hide the names of donors to a campaign against an assisted suicide initiative. …

• Idaho panel OKs assisted suicide bill

  February 17, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – Amid quotes from Scripture and urgings from anti-abortion activists, an Idaho Senate committee on Wednesday approved legislation to outlaw assisted suicide in the state, making it a felony. …

• Booth Gardner film nominated for Academy Award

  March 5, 2010 in City Booth Gardner says he no longer dwells on death. He’s got a lot going on in his life. 1

• Suicide doses for 63 in 9 months of Wash. law

  March 4, 2010 in City The state of Washington says 63 suicide prescriptions were dispensed during the first nine months of the state’s Death with Dignity Act. 1

• Mont. court: State law doesn’t prevent assisted suicide

  December 31, 2009 in Region The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure.

• Drugs brought 11 deaths

  September 9, 2009 in City on Page A5 SEATTLE – Eleven people have used prescribed drugs to end their lives during the first six months after a Washington state law took effect allowing assisted suicides for terminally ill …

• 11 end lives under assisted suicide law

  September 8, 2009 in Region SEATTLE — Eleven people have used prescribed drugs to end their lives during the first six months after a Washington state law took effect allowing assisted suicides for terminally ill … 1

• Cal Thomas: ‘Right to die’ packs a punch

  August 4, 2009 in Opinion on Page A9 BELFAST, Northern Ireland – While America debates whether the federal government should dictate which insurance policies and medical treatments it will allow us to have, here in the United Kingdom, …

• Wash. state has first death under new suicide law

  May 22, 2009 in Region OLYMPIA — A 66-year-old woman from Sequim is the first person to die under the state’s new assisted suicide law.

• Guest Opinion: Death with Dignity a law, but unavailable

  April 26, 2009 in Opinion on Page B9 On March 5, one day after Washington’s Death with Dignity Act took effect, my grandfather was taken to the hospital and admitted for low sugar diabetes. Two days later, on … 5

• Two prescriptions filled for assisted suicide

  April 24, 2009 in City on Page A6 SEATTLE – Two prescriptions have been filled for life-ending drugs under Washington’s new assisted suicide law, state health officials said Thursday. Health Department spokesman Tim Church said he could not …

• Hospitals won’t help patients end lives

  March 6, 2009 in City on Page A1 Spokane hospitals will not allow physicians to prescribe or administer lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients, opting out of a voter-approved initiative that allows the controversial practice. Executives … 1

• Resistance to I-1000

  November 6, 2008 in City on Page A1 While Washington voters made it legal for doctors to help terminally ill residents end their lives, opponents of the assisted suicide measure indicated Wednesday they will continue to resist the …

• Kevorkian Linked To 27th Suicide

  January 30, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 Dr. Jack Kevorkian apparently took part in suicide No. 27, that of a 48-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis whose bathrobe-clad body was found in Kevorkian’s battered van outside the coroner’s …

• Kevorkian Helps With 26th Suicide

  November 9, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A6 Kevorkian