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Big Autism Walkers hit the half way mark! Man with no car opens hijack case Car crushed under bus



Unbelievable scenery, massive sand-dunes, marine parks, challenging terrain, swollen rivers, extreme currents, throngs of well-wishers and the odd dead whale. Berea Police is once again sending out a stern warning to the community not to open false cases at the police station for investigation. A Lotus Road,Asherville resident escaped with no injuries after he allegedly collided into the back of a bus along Umgeni Road Durban bound opposite Carinthia Road yesterday morning at 7:20am.
 

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uShaka's royalty crowned Local beauty battles it out for top spot Jumper suffers heart attack, falls to his death



Following weeks of excitement to the run-up of the Junior Miss uShaka Miss uShaka & Mr uShaka, the pageant winners were crowned recently. Pictured are the participants who scooped top honours at the pageant.

Centenary Park resident, Neetasha Singh, is one of talented young people battling it out for the spot of presenter on popular Indian magazine programme, Eastern Mosaic. Mother's Day will forever be tainted for a Westville woman who, on Sunday, witnessed her husband suffer a fatal heart attack just minutes after attempting his first solo static line jump.
 

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To kill or not to kill, that is the debate

Controversial professor, Sean Davidson is going to campaign for South African lawmakers to change their view on euthanasia.

Davidson is back in South Africa, after serving five months house arrest in New Zealand for helping his mother commit suicide. Not a nice subject to write a column about I know, but it's something worth having a chat over don't you think?

As a Christian, my faith does not allow suicide talk of any kind, assisted or not. However, how many times have we watched a medically-grounded movie or perhaps Greys Anatomy and said that if ever we were "vegetables", we'd want our family to rather pull the plug? In Davidson's case, his administered a lethal dose of morphine to his mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. ,His mother, Dr Patricia Ferguson, asked him to help her die.

Ferguson was a general practitioner and psychiatrist. She'd tried to starve herself, in an attempt to end her life but failed. In October 2006, Davidson gave his mother the deathly dose and she passed away. As soon as it became public, he was arrested and detained in NZ.
Can you image Dr Ferguson…?

Having a perfectly super functioning brain. Studying all those years to be a doctor, to help other people during their time of illness and now, having life throw her this sort of curve ball. Going from being able to do everything for herself and now lying in a bed all day, unable to move from all the pain…

How does one deal with that? For the sake of hate mail and nasty phone calls from readers who will probably judge before they've read (like previous columns), I won't share my personal thoughts.

Instead, I would like to hear your ideas on euthanasia? If you had a family member who was unable to breathe on their own, how would you handle it? Or would you want your family to "pull the plug" if you were a "vegetable" in hospital. Add your comments below.

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