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Ex-Nurse Guilty of Aiding Suicides Online

FARIBAULT, Minn. - A former nurse accused of seeking out depressed people online and encouraging two to kill themselves was found guilty Tuesday of aiding the suicides of an English man and Canadian woman. William Melchert-Dinkel, 48, was charged in April with two counts of aiding suicide for allegedly advising and...

Motivational Speaker's Death: Murder or Assisted Suicide?

The bizarre trial of a man accused of murdering a motivational speaker who may have choreographed his own death got under way in New York on Thursday. Kenneth Minor, 36, is accused of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 52-year-old Jeffrey Locker. Minor says Locker asked to be killed in exchange for an ATM...

German Court Allows Euthanasia With Patient's OK

(June 25) -- Germany's highest court ruled today that cutting off a dying patient's life support is not a criminal offense as long as that person has given written consent. The decision overturned a nine-month conviction for manslaughter handed down to a lawyer who advised the daughter of a comatose woman in her 70s to...

Report: Clinic Founder May Profit From Assisted Suicide

ZURICH, Switzerland (June 24) -- A Swiss magazine alleged this week that the founder of Dignitas, the controversial clinic that helps terminally ill people meet a "dignified death" and has been accused of promoting "death tourism," could be profiting from the mercy killings. Ludwig A. Minelli, a former journalist and...

Veteran British TV Reporter Admits to Mercy Killing

(Feb. 16) -- A well-known British television reporter admitted on camera that he smothered an ailing lover. Police are investigating the extraordinary statement, which is expected to reinvigorate debate over the national policy on assisted suicide. ''I killed someone once. ... He was a young chap. He'd been my lover and...