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Courts asked to decide on assisted suicide

As medical science helps terminally ill people stay alive longer, there's growing debate about whether Canadians should have the right to die at a time of their own choosing. A group in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia is trying to resolve the question by challenging the constitutionality of Canada's law against assisted-suicide. We talk to criminologist Russel Ogden, a founding director of The Farewell Foundation For The Right To Die, who has studied assisted-suicide issues for 20 years. ( Photo: AP photo )

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- www.farewellfoundation.ca

Photo: In this Feb. 6, 1991 photo, retired Royal Oak, Mich. pathologist, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, left, listens as his attorney, Geoffrey N. Fieger, talks with reporters after return of the Suicide Machine. A lawyer and friend of Kevorkian says the assisted suicide advocate has died at a Detroit-area hospital at the age of 83.

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In this Feb. 6, 1991 photo, retired Royal Oak, Mich. pathologist, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, left, listens as his attorney, Geoffrey N. Fieger, talks with reporters after return of the Suicide Machine. A lawyer and friend of Kevorkian says the assisted suicide advocate has died at a Detroit-area hospital at the age of 83.

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