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FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2009 file photo is shown Seattle Mariners' ...

(AP) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:18:54 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2009 file photo is shown Seattle Mariners' John Wetteland. Wetteland, the former All-Star closer and current Seattle Mariners bullpen coach, has been taken to a Dallas-area hospital after a 9-1-1 response to his home, a Mariners spokesman is confirming Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Dallas television station CBS-11 reported Thursday the Denton County sheriff's department responded to a call describing a 'possibly suicidal person.' The report said when officers arrived to a suburban home a man later identified as Wetteland emerged with his hands in the air, saying he 'needed help.' The Mariners were still gathering information Thursday night before commenting further. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

German national soccer team captain Michael Ballack, second ...

(AP) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:48:26 GMT

(AP) - German national soccer team captain Michael Ballack, second right, embraces Teresa Enke, right, widow of goalkeeper Robert Enke, as national soccer team coach Joachim Loew, front, and assistant coach Hans-Dieter Flick, left, look on during a church service for Germany's national team and Hannover 96 goalkeeper Robert Enke at the 'Marktkirche' in Hannover, northern German, on Wednesday, NOV. 11, 2009. Germany and Hannover 96 goalkeeper Enke, who committed suicide by jumping in front of an express train on Tuesday, was suffering from depression, his wife and his doctor said in a news conference earlier on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jochen Luebke, Pool)

A view outside the High Court in London. A seriously ill baby ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:38:42 GMT

(AFP/File) - A view outside the High Court in London. A seriously ill baby whose parents are divided over whether he should be allowed to die has shown signs that he likes music and can tentatively bang a drum, the High Court in London heard Friday.(AFP/File/Alessandro Abboniizo)

A train conductor of Keihin Electric Express Railway Co. Ltd., ...

(AP) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:01:48 GMT

(AP) - A train conductor of Keihin Electric Express Railway Co. Ltd., which operates in Tokyo and nearby Yokohama, alerts to passengers of closing the doors, with backdrop of the blue lights in the company's attempt to help deter suicides at Gumyoji station in Yokohama, west of Tokyo, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009. Alarmed by a rise in people jumping to their deaths in front of trains, Japanese railway operators are installing special blue lights above station platforms they hope will have a soothing effect and reduce suicides. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

The statue of justice outside a British courthouse in London. ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:57:24 GMT

(AFP/File) - The statue of justice outside a British courthouse in London. A seriously ill baby whose parents are locked in a legal battle about whether to keep him on the ventilator which allows him to breathe is living "on a knife edge", the High Court in London heard.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)

The statue of justice. A seriously ill baby whose parents are ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:08:14 GMT

(AFP/File) - The statue of justice. A seriously ill baby whose parents are locked in a legal battle about whether to keep him on the ventilator which allows him to breathe is living "on a knife edge", the High Court in London heard.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)

In this file photo, demonstrators supporting physician assisted ...

(AP) — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:41:35 GMT

(AP) - In this file photo, demonstrators supporting physician assisted suicide speak in front of the Supreme Court, Oct. 5, 2005 in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Visitors stand under a sign dedicating this square in Rome to ...

(You Witness User Photo) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:37:28 GMT

(You Witness User Photo) - Visitors stand under a sign dedicating this square in Rome to Piergiorgio Welby on June 28. Welby, who died late last year after he requested his doctor to remove him from life support, was the central figure in a national debate about euthanasia and the right to die. The square dedicated to Welby was the site of his funeral and stands in front of his local parish church. (Photo and caption submitted by Mihai Romanciuc)

A sign marks the square in Rome dedicated to Piergiorgio Welby ...

(You Witness User Photo) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:34:11 GMT

(You Witness User Photo) - A sign marks the square in Rome dedicated to Piergiorgio Welby on June 28. Welby, whose funeral was held in this square last year after his life support system was turned off at his request, was the central figure in a national debate about euthanasia and right-to-die issues. (Photo and caption submitted by Mihai Romanciuc)

Emma Bonino, Minister for International Trade and European Affairs ...

(You Witness News) — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:08:44 GMT

(You Witness News) - Emma Bonino, Minister for International Trade and European Affairs begun, speaks with members of the Associazione Coscioni who demonstrate in support of the Welby cause. Italy's External Trade Minister Emma Bonino went on a 48-hour fast yesterday, 4th of december, in support of a severely ill Italian man who is fighting for the right to die. The case of 60-year-old Piergiorgio Welby, who suffers from muscular dystrophy, has reopened the euthanasia debate in a country where assisting a death remains a crime carrying a jail sentence. 'I intend to contribute personally to the non-violent campaign...with a two day fast on Monday and Tuesday,' Bonino said in a statement. In September, Welby had appealed for the right to die to Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano in a video shown on public Italian television from his bed with the help of a computer-generated digital voice. On December 1, his lawyers lodged an appeal with Rome's civil court for his artificial respirator to be turned off. Eight other people are into the eighth day of a hunger strike in support of his cause.(Photo and caption submitted by mihai_romanciuc)