Germany: Assisted suicide OK if patient consents
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Germany's Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling that an assisted suicide can not be punished if it is carried out based on a patient's prior request.
The court on Thursday acquitted a lawyer who had counseled his client in 2007 to cut the tube feeding her mother, who had been in a non-responsive coma for five years. A lower court had handed the lawyer a nine-month suspended sentence. (AP)
