A top German court has ruled that it is not a criminal offence to cut off the life support of a dying person if that person has given their consent.
The Federal Court of Justice acquitted a lawyer who had advised the daughter of a comatose woman to cut off her feeding tube.
Earlier the patient had expressed her wish not to be kept alive artificially.
The offending pentagram was already gone from the back of Stacie Browns barn when she was ordered to spend five days in jail for contempt of court. Others arent so sure, but Brown says she has no doubt her constitutional rights were violated.
In a scrap with her next door neighbors that drove both sides to seek relief in court, Stacie Brown was ordered to stop bothering them with vulgar or in
In 1836, a nine-year-old pioneer girl named Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped during a Comanche raid in North Texas. She was strapped onto the back of a horse and taken north, back into the Plains where the powerful American Indian tribe lived.
Parker became a ward of the chief and later, a full member of the Comanches. She eventually married a highly respected Comanche chief and gave birth to t
Communications scholar John Sanchez, Yaqui/Apache, is trying to bring the public perception of American Indians into the 21st century. Beginning with some experiences that confronted his children, Sanchez discovered that there is a 400-year gap between perception and reality for many people in this country, and his recent project is aiming to dispel some old misconceptions.
Who Are American In
Pentagram flags flapping wildly in the wind, belly dancing beauties hurling flaming torches, and Nordic shamans calling down the old gods! It’s hard to adequately capture and portray the intensity of what I just experienced with words alone, since this isn’t a religion of words but one of encounter and experience. I’ve just returned from Pendle Witch Camp, an annual gathering of modern Pagans that
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Summer brings out many odd traditions in Britain, Gloucester has cheese rolling, Wiltshire has the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge and villages in Staffordshire and Derbyshire have the tradition of well dressing.
Norbury Primary School PupilsGroups in Mayfield, Norbury, and Wyaston spent last week constructing ornate designs, which were displayed on wells over the weekend.
Well dressings are m
They came as usual to the Hill of Tara, the former seat of the High Kings, to mark the summer solstice.
The M3 motorway could not be seen or heard from the hill, but the controversy has created negative energy at the site in Co Meath, according to a number of pagans who gathered there yesterday.
Among them were three generations of the Kelly family from Templeogue in Dublin. “I have been com
Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system, according to a report released on Wednesday.
The United States ranked last when compared to six other countries — Britain, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, the Commonwealth Fund report found.
The current re
Residents of the northern Colombian town of Barrancabermeja are gearing up for a literal witch-hunt after some mystical markings were found in a nearby forest.
Park rangers came across the carvings, along with several burnt-out candles, whilst they were clearing an area of the forest close to the town’s Yerima neighborhood.
Locals are convinced that what the authorities stumbled upon was a s
