1.   But less than two years later, Mero was back for more, finding new ways to push the envelope of assisted death, in law and in practice.

2.   Is that assisted suicide or assisted death, or is it relief of suffering?

3.   But what he is describing is euthanasia or physician assisted death, both, according to Kusum Kumar of the Indian Law Institute, illegal in India.

4.   It also allows patients to leave a written agreement to an assisted death if they become incapacitated, giving doctors the right to use their own discretion.

5.   There have been unsuccessful moves in the past to legalize medically assisted death in India, but only for terminally ill patients.

6.   Under the bill enacted by the Dutch parliament Tuesday, a patient seeking mercy killing or assisted death must be a legal resident of the Netherlands.