Month: February 2015

The Supreme Court of Canada overturned a ban on physician-assisted suicide on Friday, unanimously reversing a decision it made in 1993 and putting Canada in the company of a handful of Western countries where the practice will be legal. Gloria Taylor, an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patient and activist, who joined the right to die lawsuit in 2011, died of her illness in 2012. The family of a second woman, Kay Carter, who traveled to Switzerland to end her life, were also plaintiffs. Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, along with a handful of other European countries and a few U.S. states.

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Sixty-one bodies were discovered in an abandoned crematorium near the decaying seaside resort of Acapulco in Western Mexico, local authorities said on Friday, adding they believed it was a case of negligence rather than linked to drug violence. They were found 130 miles (211 km) from the town of Iguala, where 43 student teachers were abducted by corrupt police and apparently massacred by drug gang members. “Sixty-one bodies have been confirmed found,” Miguel Angel Godinez, attorney general for the state of Guerrero, told Reuters. “We are talking about a clear violation of state sanitation laws.” He said the crematorium had been abandoned for months, and that local residents had called police because of the smell.
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By Misha Hussain GUECKEDOU, Guinea (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Muslim leaders in Guinea have called on families to end the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Guinea has the second highest rate of FGM in the world, with around 97 percent of women and adolescent girls cut. In a sermon preached across mosques in the capital Conakry, senior cleric Imam Nabe Sidiki told worshippers that the preventative measures reflected the teachings of the Prophet Mohammad, who said the healthy should not be exposed to disease. “In this period of Ebola epidemic, we must move away from all traditional practices that can be sources of contamination such as female circumcision and ceremonies that accompany the act,” Sidiki’s sermon read.
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By Philip O’Connor (Reuters) – Soccer clubs need to take a longer-term approach to the mental health of their players, and not just for the duration of their contracts, the chief medical officer of world players’ union FIFPro told Reuters. The issue was brought to the fore after former Premier League player and ex-chairman of the English Professional Footballers’ Association Clarke Carlisle said this week that he had been trying to commit suicide when he was struck by a truck in December. “(Carlisle is) quite extreme example of course, so when it comes to this it’s a little bit surprising, (but) it doesn’t matter if it’s a pro footballer or a normal human being,” Dr. Vincent Gouttebarge said in an interview. Once a taboo subject, the issue has been pushed to the forefront following a number of high-profile cases of players and ex-players battling mental health issues, with some tragically taking their own lives.
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