Assisted-Dying Blog

Some years ago I was sitting in the High Court of Appeals in London listening to a euthanasia case. Part of the evidence was that the man had paid a call at the offices of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, in Chelsea. All he got there was information, certainly not assisted death. The defendant’s lawyer argued […]

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Dr Jack Kevorkian is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder after being convicted of giving a fatal injection of drugs in 1998. He is eligible for parole in 2007. Kevorkian’s lawyer Mayer Morganroth said he filed an application with the Michigan Parole Board and Gov. Jennifer Granholm seeking a pardon, parole or […]

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As he sits in jail, Dr Jack Kevorkian may have had a change of heart — not about his dedication to the “death with dignity” movement, but on how he went about promoting it. Specifically, his lawyer suggests, he questions the more than 100 suicides he said he assisted throughout the 1990s. One assisted suicide […]

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The World Federation of Right to Die Societies and Dying With Dignity welcome the world to Toronto! + ATTEND leading-edge presentations. + ESTABLISH & STRENGTHEN international networks. + LEARN about the successes and the battles – locally, nationally, and internationally. For details, go to http://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/worldconference06/homepage.html Euthanasia literature available at ERGO bookstore.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has just refused to hear a case where a condemned prisoner claimed that the use of certain drugs was ‘cruel and unusual punishment’. All but one of the U.S. states with the death penalty and the federal government use lethal injection for executions. Nebraska alone requires electrocution. The standard method involves […]

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Greetings from Washington DC! We are going to present a new play about euthanasia which we think you and your constituencies might be interested. I wonder if there are any members/ supporters of your organization who live in the DC area. If so, we would like to ask for your kind support in helping us […]

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Jack Kevorkian, the advocate for assisted suicide who is serving a prison term for murder, has again asked the state to grant his client a pardon or commute his sentence, saying he would probably not survive another year if kept in prison. His lawyer said Mr. Kevorkian had “become increasingly frail and has fallen twice, […]

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Details of the September joint conference in Toronto of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies and Dying with Dignity – Canada are available on the World Conference 2006 page. Further literature at the ERGO bookstore

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The paperback book “Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying” by Derek Humphry was placed at number 3,120 today in the sales rankings of Amazon.com Sales. There are more than two million books in this ranking. First published in l991, twice updated, it also remains in print in Spanish (“El […]

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The House of Lords in the UK has voted to stall a controversial bill to allow doctors to help terminally-ill patients end their lives. The Assisted Dying Bill would let doctors prescribe, but not administer, lethal drugs to patients who are suffering unbearably and have less than six months to live. Peers have voted 148 […]

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