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Economics Nobel prize winner Prof. Daniel Kahneman speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on June 20, 2013. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)
March 15, 2025, 11:36 pm
Israeli-American Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman revealed to have died by assisted suicide
Wall Street Journal says pioneer of behavioral economics, who died last year at 90, made decision to forgo suffering of old age and leave life on his own terms
By ToI Staff
Ondi Timoner and her father Eli Timoner in 'Last Flight Home,' Ondi's film about Eli's assisted suicide. (MTV Documentary Films/ via JTA)
October 7, 2022, 8:38 pm
In documentary ‘Last Flight Home,’ a Jewish family helps their father end his life
When former airline exec Eli Timoner started putting his affairs in order decades after being felled by a stroke, his daughters chronicled it. Now their film opens in NY and LA
By Andrew Lapin
In this file photo taken on August 12, 2020 Alain Cocq rests on his medical bed in his flat in Dijon, northeastern France. (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP)
September 5, 2020, 7:17 pm
Facebook blocks terminally ill Frenchman from streaming his death
After Macron turns down his request for euthanasia, Alain Cocq refuses all food and drink, attempts to broadcast his final days to show ‘agony’ caused by French law
By Loïc VENNIN
Rabbi Prof. Avraham Steinberg and other religious authorities present to Pope Francis a document denouncing euthanasia, October 28, 2019. (Courtesy/Chief Rabbinate spokesperson Kobi Alter)
October 29, 2019, 2:25 am
Rabbis join ‘historic’ interfaith call at Vatican against assisted suicide
In initiative spearheaded by Israeli ethicist, Jewish, Christian, Muslim leaders submit to Pope Francis a joint document denouncing ‘Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this October 26, 2015, file photo, right to die advocates rally outside the New Mexico Supreme Court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after a lawyer asked justices to allow terminally-ill patients to end their lives. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)
August 28, 2019, 10:03 am
New Jersey court okays assisted suicide law, dismissing lawsuit by Jewish doctor
US judges overturn lower court’s ruling that sided with Dr. Yosef Glassman, who argued practice would violate 1st Amendment Rights of religious physicians
By MIKE CATALINI
Dr. Yosef Glassman (via jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com)
August 16, 2019, 8:59 am
New Jersey’s assisted suicide law on hold after lawsuit by Jewish doctor
Judge sides with Dr. Yosef Glassman, who says providing life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients violates First Amendment Rights of religious health care professionals
By MIKE CATALINI
Yoskeh and Nurit Marmurstein enjoy winter blossoms in Alumim, Israel, in 2012. (Courtesy of Yoskeh Marmurstein/via JTA)
June 27, 2019, 1:55 am
Late wife’s torment turns Israeli religious farmer into assisted suicide backer
After his terminally ill wife had to fly to Switzerland to end her suffering, Yoskeh Marmurstein is challenging a society that resists the burial of suicides in Jewish cemeteries
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Pope Francis celebrates a mass in St. Peter basilica at the Vatican, November 18, 2018. (Andrew Medichini/AP)
November 23, 2018, 12:17 am
Vatican and Israeli Chief Rabbinate preparing joint statement against euthanasia
Representatives gather for 16th Bilateral Commission to discuss matters of human dignity ‘with special reference to the child’ in Jewish and Catholic teaching
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a doctor and patient. (kzenon/istockphoto)
April 6, 2017, 3:00 pm
Ultra-Orthodox group backs up NY law banning assisted suicide
Agudath Israel of America files amicus brief in euthanasia lawsuit by terminally ill patients and their doctors
By JTA
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