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Diane Pretty's husband Brian was at her bedside ; ... Diane Pretty, who was in the advanced stages of motor neurone disease, died at a hospice near her home on Saturday, aged 43. ... The BBC's Karen Allen; "Diane Pretty was a remarkable woman";
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1983457.stm
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Diane Pretty, the terminally ill woman who wants her husband to be allowed to help her commit suicide, made a final plea for the right to die with dignity at the European court of human rights yesterday ... "It is very poignant," said Mr Pretty. "Our very first trip abroad is to come here to ask for Diane's right to die."
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www.guardian.co.uk/society/2002/mar/20/health.uknews
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The case of Diane Pretty, came into the news in June 2001, was rejected in a High Court judgement on 18th October 2001, and then was again rejected by the House of Lords and finally by the European Court of Human Rights in April 2002.
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www.spucscotland.org/education/students/euthanasia/thec...
www.spucscotland.org/education/students/euthanasia/thecaseofdianepretty.html
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The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, parliamentary and educational pro-life organisation. ... DIANE Pretty lost her final appeal to the European Court of Human Rights yesterday to be allowed to die with dignity at a time of her choosing.
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www.spucscotland.org/education/students/euthanasia/dian...
www.spucscotland.org/education/students/euthanasia/dianepretty.html
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1. No one of ordinary sensitivity could be unmoved by the frightening ordeal which faces Mrs Dianne Pretty, the appellant. She suffers from motor neurone disease, a progressive degenerative illness from which she has no hope of recovery.
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www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200102/ldjudgmt/jd0...
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200102/ldjudgmt/jd011129/pretty-1.htm
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Diane Pretty was born in 1958, and met her husband Brian fifteen years later. The couple were married for twenty-three years with two children when Mrs Pretty was diagnosed in November 1999 with the degenerative condition of motor neurone disease (MND). She was forty-three years old.
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paul.raine.googlepages.com/dianepretty
paul.raine.googlepages.com/dianepretty
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ALERT is delighted at the decision announced on Thursday 18th October that Diane Pretty has lost her High Court battle over the right to commit suicide with the help of her husband.
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www.donoharm.org.uk/alert/state1.htm
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"Human life has been priced rather low until recently." says Andy Berry, a person with disability who is spokesman for Alert in the current controversy over Diane Pretty and "assisted suicide". "Now the terrible loss of life in New York bas made some politicians speak of its value.
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www.donoharm.org.uk/alert/prel7.htm
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Assisted suicide - the Dianne Pretty judgement ... THE QUEEN ON THE APPLICATION OF DIANNE PRETTY and DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS and SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT and INTERVENORS including the MEDICAL ETHICS ALLIANCE.
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www.catholicdoctors.org.uk/Special_Documents/diane_pret...
www.catholicdoctors.org.uk/Special_Documents/diane_pretty_judgement.htm
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