Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, GLADD, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jan 28th, 2012
After researching the development and use of the helium self-deliverance method for five years as NuTech’s unofficial historian, I can assure readers of this blog of two things with certainty: 1. The “party balloon kit” helium tanks contain 100.00% helium, with no other gases. 2. Misstatements to the contrary have no basis whatsoever in fact, [...]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, GLADD, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jan 19th, 2012
Re: United States v. Sharlotte Hydorn Victims Rights and Restitution Act If you are one of those persons who recently received a ‘victim letter’ from the US Department of Justice in connection with Ms Sharlotte Hydorn, of California, who used to supply helium hood kits upon request, I suggest that you respond to it this [...]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on Dec 30th, 2011
At least two-thirds of Canadians support assisted suicide, according to a Forum Research poll for the National Post. The poll found 67 per cent of Canadians favor legalizing doctor-assisted suicide of terminally ill patients. In Ontario only 60 per cent of residents agreed. The poll shows support is highest among men and respondents under the [...]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, GLADD, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Dec 3rd, 2011
A 91-year-old Californian woman has pleaded guilty to failing to file federal tax returns for her company that made and sold helium hood kits. They were intended for the terminally ill to bring their lives to a speedy end if they wished. Sharlotte Hydorn admitted paying no tax on $66,717 (£42,775) of income in 2010. [...]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Nov 27th, 2011
************************************************** To view Derek Humphry’s opinion on Alzheimers Disease and the possibility of self-deliverance from it, visit this site on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFinalExit#p/a/u/0/_jHcVEhZc_Y Four minutes long – “The Tragic Dilemma of Alzheimer’s” ****************************************************
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Nov 8th, 2011
Lawyers for the Final Exit Network argued before the state Supreme Court on Monday that Georgia’s assisted suicide law is “irrational” because it allows someone to assist in a suicide but not to publicly advertise or offer that help, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. But Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit District Attorney Penny Penn argued that the law [...]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Nov 6th, 2011
QUIETLY, GEORGIA BECOMES FOURTH STATE TO LEGALIZE PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE By Robert Rivas, General Counsel, Final Exit Network, Tallahassee, Florida ATLANTA, Georgia — Without fanfare, Georgia has become the fourth state in the United States to legalize physician-assisted suicide, the attorney general of Georgia disclosed in a brief before the Supreme Court of Georgia. Until now, [...]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Nov 2nd, 2011
Georgia’s highest court is set to review an appeal by four members of a suicide group charged with helping a cancer-stricken man kill himself. The Georgia Supreme Court is set to hear the arguments Monday, reports A.P. The four were indicted by a Forsyth County grand jury in March 2010. They pleaded not guilty to [...]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, GLADD, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Oct 7th, 2011
How To Make Your Own Helium Hood Kit Information for competent adults who are terminally or hopelessly ill and wish to die 2011 Addendum to Chapter 23 of Final Exit book & Final Exit on DVD By Derek Humphry Published October 2011 10 Pages • PDF * Price: $5.00 Available ONLY through the ERGO Bookstore [...]
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The Crown Prosecution Service [in England] has not implemented a “blanket policy” banning the prosecution of cases of assisted suicide, its head has insisted. The Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer admitted that no prosecutions had been brought for the offense since new CPS guidelines were issued 18 months ago. But he said after personally [...]
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