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 Film/TV/Radio, People in the News, RTD News on May 9th, 2006
The whole debate about euthanasia and the right of terminal patients to end their own life has been opened up once again by the death of a a pentaplegic man, Jorge Leon, this weekend. Eight years ago Spain was gripped by the story of Ramon Sampedro, who became a quadriplegic after a diving accident when […]
Posted in Opinion Pieces, Politics/Law, RTD News on May 7th, 2006
Read the fine argument in Sunday’s Observer (London) making the case for the Bill before the House of Lords making physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill available. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1769395,00.htm Literature on this subject available at ERGO Bookstore
Posted in Books, Politics/Law, RTD News on May 3rd, 2006
Dr Tom Preston wrote the following article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The Oregon Death with Dignity Act has worked nearly perfectly for more than eight years, giving peaceful dying to 246 patients and backup security to thousands more, with no evidence of misuse of the law. Sad to say, unfounded fears and old taboos have […]
Posted in Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations on May 2nd, 2006
According to a national survey done by the Pew Research Center, almost everybody in America knows of the existence of “Living Wills” — particularly since the Terri Schiavo case in Florida in March of last year. But (Pew found) only 29 percent of adults had actually signed an Advance Directive for health care (Living Will, […]
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Weblog of Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit, serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults for 30 years
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