31.   A doctor pleaded guilty Monday to assisting the suicide of a man with AIDS, becoming the first Canadian physician convicted of helping a patient to kill himself.

32.   Authorities said the maximum sentence for a person convicted of assisting a suicide was life in prison.

33.   Authorities could not immediately be contacted to establish the maximum sentence for a person convicted of assisting a suicide.

34.   In April, the Netherlands legalized mercy killing and assisted suicides for patients suffering unbearably with no hope of relief.

35.   Surveys show that doctors refuse far more requests to assist suicides than they accept.

36.   Some poll numbers from questions about assisted suicide.

37.   The Dutch parliament approved a bill Tuesday to allow euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, making it the first country to formally legalize the practice.

38.   The first person in Canada convicted of assisting a suicide received a suspended sentence Monday for helping her best friend die.

39.   The product would effectively be a technological bypass to laws outlawing suicide and assisting suicide, he said.

40.   The victory may be short-lived, however, because President Clinton has threatened to veto the bill over issues unrelated to assisted suicide.