Read a June 14, 2013, Wall Street Journal story about proposed changes to Belgium’s euthanasia law to make it more widely available, potentially even to gravely ill teenagers.

Read a June 23, 2013, story by BioEdge.org that says assisted-suicide prescriptions in Washington state were up 17 percent in 2012 compared with 2011.

Read a July 1, 2013, Reuters blog post about the debate in France over whether to legalize voluntary euthanasia.

Read a July 11, 2013, New York Times story about the possibility that Nelson Mandela’s family is facing thorny issues regarding his end-of-life care.

YWCA is a nonprofit, global membership association run by and for women and their families that advocates peace, justice, human rights, environmental awareness and the rights of women.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world’s largest humanitarian organization.

Stephen Law is a philosopher and senior lecturer at Heythrop College at the University of London. He is the editor of the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s journal Think. His interests include relevance of philosophy; philosophy and religion; philosophy and children; moral education and creationism versus evolution. He is a member of the Humanist Philosophers Group, […]

Young Life Club is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian organization reaching out to teens with programs in some 450 communities in the United States and Canada and 36 countries overseas.

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