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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A 91-year-old California woman selling do-it-yourself asphyxiation kits for $60 apiece says business is booming since a depressed but otherwise healthy young man used her product to kill himself in Oregon.Notoriety surrounding Sharlotte Hydorn's home-based mail order operation ...
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Sean Manning was about to turn 27 when his mother collapsed with a heart attack and then was diagnosed with cancer, the start of a 13-month hospital odyssey that ended in her death aged just short of 60.An ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -- Hospitals that spend more money treating patients with acute illnesses may be better at keeping those patients alive, suggests a new study.The finding is in line with recent research, but it challenges an assumption held by many ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Undertakers put funerals on hold across Israel on Tuesday after a mortician was shot dead in a suspected dispute over rising fees for scarce burial plots.Benjamin Hesse, 60, was killed outside his home in Haifa on Sunday in an ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - At UCLA Medical Center, which prides itself on caring for critically ill patients, a recent study showed room for improvement in the way doctors manage dying patients -- and the findings likely apply to other hospitals as ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jack Kevorkian earned the moniker "Dr. Death" by helping more than 130 terminally ill patients commit suicide, but even the right-to-die activist admits that he is afraid of the inevitable -- death.Kevorkian, 82, is the topic of a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - European countries show wide variations in the percentage of terminally ill cancer patients who spend their last days at home, according to a study published online Monday.Enabling terminally ill patients to die at home rather than a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Videos that depict different options for end-of-life care may help terminally ill cancer patients decide on what they want, a new study suggests.Research shows that only a minority of cancer patients complete documents on advance care planning ...
