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euthanasia_glance.sPubDate = "9/29/2005 8:11:28 PM GMT";
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euthanasia_glance.appHeader = "at a glance|Euthanasia in industrial countries";
euthanasia_glance.appDeck = "The Dutch government is expanding its euthanasia policy, setting guidelines for when doctors may end the lives of terminally ill newborns. Following are the positions of some industrialized countries on euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide:";
euthanasia_glance.appFooter = "Source: The Associated Press. Last updated Sept. 29, 2005.";
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euthanasia_glance[i++] = new Array("","Netherlands","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
euthanasia_glance[i-1].body = "Legalized euthanasia in 2001, but the practice was common for at least a decade before. Under the law, patients must be terminally ill, in unbearable pain and two doctors must agree there is no prospect for recovery. Vetting commissions test whether these conditions are met.";

euthanasia_glance[i++] = new Array("","Belgium","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
euthanasia_glance[i-1].body = "Legalized under similar conditions as the Netherlands in 2002.";

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euthanasia_glance[i-1].body = "Oregon voters approved the first physician-assisted suicide law in the United States in 1994. The law took effect after an appeals court lifted a block in 1997, but it has undergone constant legal challenges since. In February, the Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges from the Bush Administration on Wednesday.";

euthanasia_glance[i++] = new Array("","Switzerland","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
euthanasia_glance[i-1].body = "Allows passive assistance to terminally ill people who have expressed a wish to die.";

euthanasia_glance[i++] = new Array("","Germany & Austria","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
euthanasia_glance[i-1].body = "Euthanasia is illegal and the shadow of Nazi eugenics policies overshadows discussion.";

euthanasia_glance[i++] = new Array("","Italy","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
euthanasia_glance[i-1].body = "Euthanasia is illegal in the heavily Roman Catholic nation.";

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euthanasia_glance[i-1].body = "Under a 1995 court ruling, helping terminally ill patients end their lives is legal if the patients are in extreme pain and near death, the patients clearly say they want to die and other ways to alleviate the suffering fail.";

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euthanasia_glance[i-1].body = "Passed a law in December 2004 allowing living wills or documents that set out what medical treatment they want if they become seriously ill and lose the capacity to make a decision. Opponents claim this has opened the door to euthanasia.";

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euthanasia_glance[i-1].body = "Enables the terminally ill or those with no hope of recovery to refuse treatment in favor of death. Doctors are allowed to administer painkillers, even if their secondary effects include shortening patients’ lives. But the law stops short of allowing euthanasia.";

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euthanasia_glance[i-1].body = "The U.N. Human Rights Committee criticized Dutch legalization in 2001. The Council of Europe — Europe’s top human rights body — rejected euthanasia as a legitimate means to end life in April 2005.";

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