Push for right to die growing in Netherlands

April 3, 2012 By

Details: It was 1989, and Dr. Petra de Jong, a Dutch pulmonologist, was asked for help by a terminally ill patient, a man in great pain with a large cancerous tumor in his trachea. He wanted to end his life. She gave the man pentobarbital, a powerful barbiturate — but not enough. It took him nine [...]

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Check the forecast: man builds replica of ark

May 30, 2011 By 2 Comments

No, it’s not “Evan Almighty.”  But it’s been quite a production. Details, from the New York Times: If Noah had run into the modern nanny state, or nimby, or a few of the other obstacles that Johan Huibers has been facing, the animal kingdom might look a lot different today. Mr. Huibers, 60, the successful [...]

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