Assisted-Dying Blog

The book “Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying” by Derek Humphry, has now been in continual print for 15 years. It is presently in its revised 3rd edition. With copies bought directly from ERGO comes a free ‘Addendum’ which updates the book to 2005. It remains the only volume […]

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The 13th conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies will be held at the Sheraton Centre, Toronto, on September 7-10, this year (2006). Hosts to this meeting will be Canada’s 25-year-old Dying With Dignity organization which can be contacted at: Dying With Dignity 802-55 Eglinton Avenue East Toronto, ON ON M4P 1G8 […]

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It has been a significant happening in the controversial world of euthanasia and assisted suicide that a British doctor, Ann Turner, aged 67, flew to Switzerland to have another doctor end her life with an overdose at the Dignitas clinic. (Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland for 65 years). She had an incurable degenerative […]

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Fresh off the printing press is the unique desk reference book, ‘The Good Euthanasia Guide‘ in updated form for 2006. Authored by Derek Humphry, the book lists how to contact all the right-to-die groups in the world, what the orgainizations stand for, the state of the laws on assisted suicide, a chronology of historical events […]

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I think most people of goodwill will be pleased to see that Michael Schiavo, whose brain-damaged wife was at the center of a contentious end-of-life battle that played out on a worldwide media stage, has remarried. Schiavo married his longtime girlfriend Jodi Centonze on Saturday in a private church ceremony, said John Centonze, the brother […]

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