Euthanasia

South Bend euthanized more than 60 percent of the animals it took in last year. A South Bend Common Council member has a plan to drastically lower that number, and she says it wouldn’t cost taxpayer dollars. In 2011, South Bend Animal Care and...

On March 20, Purdy’s wife, Margaret, 84, commited suicide after years of unrelenting pain from a variety of ailments. The couple was married for a decade. Purdy, a semi-retired engineer, did not try to stop her as she swallowed apple sauce mixed...

In advance of the 2008 election, Focus on the Family released "Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America," warning their followers what life would be like in the fall of 2012 were Barack Obama to be elected. It's both frightening and......

A “right-to-die” bill may again surface in the legislature next year. Physician-assisted suicide is legal in Oregon and Washington state, but illegal here. The legislature has looked at the issue at least twice, but a bill has not become law....

We had to put Felix to sleep last month. I say "had to put him to sleep" because I can't bear the thought there might have been an alternative. I had two other dogs who lived to be 21 before dying at home. Toward the end, several people had suggested I...

Pets are similar to people in many ways. They can have most of the same types of medical conditions as people. Consequently, like people, some pets live long enough to die of natural causes related to old age. However, others will become ill prematurely....

Time for a little fall window-shopping, a quickie preview of what might tempt the serious gift-buyer in the next couple of months. Paradigm Millenia CT 2.1 System and AERA Radio: The Canadian speaker company developed the Millenia CT (for "Compact...

Rev. James Martin aruges in The National Catholic Weekly that gun control is a religous issue: It is as much of a “life issue” or a “pro-life issue,” as some religious people say, as is abortion, euthanasia or the death penalty...

Lennox, a pit bull terrier-type dog, has been put to sleep despite a trans-Atlantic campaign to prevent his destruction. The Belfast City Council in Northern Ireland announced Wednesday that the dog was "humanely" euthanized....

Doctors have been allowed to help patients end their lives in the Netherlands for a decade by giving them lethal drugs, a practice that has sometimes stoked alarm outside the country, even popping up in American political debate earlier this year. Now a...

A California actress who grew up in the Roanoke Valley is hoping to make a feature film here.  "It's a Good Day to Die," is  a comedy about assisted suicide, and this week, Andrea Shreeman has been meeting with community leaders and potential investors.  ...

Artists and musicians in Fullerton are preparing for a weekend of events commemorating the one-year anniversary of the death of Kelly Thomas....