Weblog of Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit, serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults for 30 years
Posted in Events/Conferences, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 28th, 2006
The New Technology in Self-Deliverance Group — better known as NuTech — will hold a workshop as an adjunct event to the 16th biennial conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies in Toronto, Canada, on September 8-10, 2006 It was the pioneer work of the NuTech group which developed the inert gas […]
Posted in Events/Conferences, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 24th, 2006
Details of the joint conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies and Dying with Dignity, of Canada, can be seen at this site
Posted in Events/Conferences, Politics/Law, RTD News on Apr 21st, 2006
The second reading in the House of Lords of a private members Bill on assisted suicide is set to take place. The Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill proposes to make it legal for doctors to prescribe drugs to a terminally ill person in order for them to take their own life. The Bill […]
Posted in Books, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 19th, 2006
In the 15 months it has been open, the ERGO internet bookstore has received more than three hundred thousand visitors (301,501), and 1,410 customers from around the world have purchased books or videos about choices in dying.
Posted in Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 18th, 2006
Ludwig A. Minelli, Secretary General of DIGNITAS in Switzerland, said that a report in the London Sunday Times of 16 April 2006 telling that DIGNITAS has plans “to open a chain of high street-style centres” to end the lives of people with illnesses or mental conditions such as chronic depression “is a hoax”. There are […]
Posted in Politics/Law, RTD News on Apr 17th, 2006
Moscow, April 15, Interfax – Nearly a quarter of Russians – 23% – believe that there should be no restrictions on euthanasia as a form of assistance to terminally ill patients wanting to voluntarily end their life and that the practice should become common, while another 36% would support allowing euthanasia with serious restrictions, a […]
Posted in Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 14th, 2006
FIRST IN AUSTRALIA, NOW PERHAPS GERMANY… On March 27, three of the German Federal States introduced in the Council of the Federal States (Bundesrat) a proposal for a new German law which, if it became law, would make it difficult to provide information on assisted suicide or self-deliverance. The proposal — in translation — is […]
Posted in Politics/Law, RTD News on Apr 12th, 2006
There is considerable controversy in the US about the most humane way to execute persons sentenced to death. Some experience in this can be gained from euthanasia practices. The NY Times has weighed in on this April 12, part of which is quoted below, with my response. The three chemicals used in lethal injections in […]
Posted in Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News on Apr 11th, 2006
There is a David Levine cartoon from a back issue of the at New York Review of Books
Posted in RTD News on Apr 11th, 2006
I have a question about the helium method of euthanasia. I was under the impression that the helium that can be purchased from a local retail establishment is not 100% helium but that it is mixed with air in some major proportion. Do you know if this is true or even likely? If it is […]
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