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Physician Assisted Suicide
Hawaii legislature rejects assisted suicide
Jared Yee | 10 February 2011
A Hawaii legislative panel Monday unanimously voted down a bill that would have legalised physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill, quashing the possibility that it would become legal this year.
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