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Left behind: Families struggle to navigate life after suicide

DRAPER, Utah (RNS) As young brothers, Kris and Kourt McGuire often spent hours chasing the shimmering dragonflies that floated above a lush, green pasture behind their house.
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‘Death cafes’ normalize a difficult, not morbid, topic

| Apr 16, 2013

(RNS) No one wants to talk about death at the dinner table, at a soccer game or at a party, says Lizzy Miles, a social worker in Columbus, Ohio.
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Right-to-die bill dead, but its supporters vow to continue the fight

| Apr 9, 2013

A bill that would have legalized physcian-assisted suicide in Connecticut died in a legislative committee last week without a vote, but its supporters vowed to  return next year.
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Vitriol infests Rick Warren family’s grief

| Apr 9, 2013

(RNS) Pastor Rick Warren, the best-known name in American evangelism after Rev. Billy Graham, lost his 27-year-old son, Matthew, to suicide on Friday (April 5).
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Bhutan seeks to curb sexual diseases among Buddhist monks

| Mar 28, 2013

NEW DELHI (RNS) Health officials in the tiny Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan are making condoms available at all monastic schools in a bid to stem the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV among young monks who are supposed to be celibate.
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Connecticut lawmakers take up right-to-die bill

| Mar 20, 2013

If she were fortunate, Sondra Astor Stave would pass away in her 90s after a useful day of activities
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Venting and vetting: The brutal side of papal politics

| Feb 25, 2013

(RNS) If you want a crash course on how papal politics really works, look no further than the saga of Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien.
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Opinion: Physician assisted suicide—patients mistakenly lose years or life

| Feb 18, 2013

Several bills have been proposed to legalize physician assisted suicide in Connecticut.
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For Sandy Hook first responders Navy’s remedy is spirituality

| Feb 1, 2013

In a recent New York Times story, seven Newtown police officers give a first hand account of the carnage they found inside Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14.
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Doctors warn against ‘reproductive coercion’

| Jan 29, 2013

(RNS) When a husband hides a wife’s birth control pills or a boyfriend takes off a condom in the middle of sex in hopes of getting an unwilling girlfriend pregnant, that’s a form of abuse called “reproductive coercion.”
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Catholic university engages atheism head-on

| Jan 25, 2013

TORONTO (RNS) Talk about an unlikely course in an unlikely place.  
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