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Germany: Federal Court of Justice to decide euthanasia case

By Alliance Alert

aerzteblatt.de: "[The Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) in Karlsruhe will rule concerning] the [attempted] euthanasia of a terminally ill woman at [a] hearing on Wednesday. She [had lain] in a coma since a cerebral hemorrhage in 2002 at a nursing home in Bad Hersfeld, and [had previously] expressed the wish that [in such a case] the artificial diet [would be] discontinued . . . [Following the attempt] the court sentenced [the daughter's lawyer] to a term of imprisonment of nine months probation for attempted homicide; the daughter was acquitted because [she] had acted in view of the legal advice of the lawyer [and] without guilt. Both the lawyer and the prosecutor appealed to the Supreme Court. Whether the judge make a ruling on Wednesday, is completely open." [Modified Google translation]

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).