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SKOREA-EUTHANASIA-JUSTICE
South Korea's Severance Hospital chief Park Chang-Il expresses regret at a landmark Supreme Court verdict regarding euthanasia or mercy killing in Seoul on May 21, 2009. South Korea's top court authorised doctors to halt life-sustaining treatment for a comatose woman, approving a request for euthanasia for the first time in the country. The supreme court, upholding a lower court decision, supported a request by the family of the 76-year-old that she be allowed to die with dignity. Under current law the removal of a respirator from a brain-dead patient is regarded as murder. But the family said extending life using medical devices would prolong the woman's "painful and meaningless" existence. AFP PHOTO/KIM JAE-MYOUNG
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SEOUL, 114, REPUBLIC OF KOREA |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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KIM JAE-MYOUNG |
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21 Mai 2009 |
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2189 x 3200 (1.02 MB) |
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