Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Feb 20th, 2007
Doctors no longer help terminally ill patients to enjoy a peaceful death because of the Harold Shipman case, according to a leading consultant. Speaking in Glasgow, Simon Kenwright, a semi-retired consultant gastroenteologist from East Kent hospital, said fears of prosecution are affecting patient treatment. In a lecture to 100 members of Friends at the end […]
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California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez has announced that he will back a bill to allow terminally ill people to hasten their deaths with lethal prescriptions. Similar bills have failed in the last two years, but supporters say Nuñez, a Los Angeles Democrat, could make the difference. “We are more hopeful now than ever that we […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 14th, 2007
A CAUTIONARY NOTE TO OUR MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS FROM ERGO (Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization) “The Peaceful Pill Handbook” By Dr. Philip Nitschke & Dr. Fiona Stewart To avoid any possible misunderstanding about this new book, our supporters should note that there is no such single unit as a ‘peaceful pill’ described in the book, […]
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In the 25 months since it opened, more than half a million people have visited ERGO’s online bookstore (505,919 to be exact.) 2,439 have purchased books, ebooks, DVDs and VHS videos. Of those, 1,117 bought ‘Final Exit’ 3rd edition, paperback. Amazon.com Sales Rank of ‘Final Exit’ today: #14,364 in Books (out of 2 million volumes […]
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A state House committee has voted 6-1 to hold a bill that would have legalized physician-assisted suicide in Hawaii. House Bill 675 faced overwhelmingly opposition during a hearing before the House Health Committee, chaired by Rep. Josh Green, (D-Keauhou, Honokohau). A similar bill in the Senate is also not expected to make it out of […]
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For years German right-to-die leaders and activists have lived under a cloud of uncertainty whether physicians, “guidesâ€, friends, relatives, etc who had rendered perfectly legal passive assistance at the scene , would nevertheless subsequently be subject to prosecution, if, after witnessing the patient’s suicide, they failed to immediately take emergency measures to nullify the patient’s […]
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A year after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide law, lawmakers in Hawaii plan to examine the issue once again. The proposal to allow competent, terminally ill adults obtain a lethal dose of medication to end their lives will be heard by the House Health Committee. Just as with past proposals, the bill […]
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A ruling by Switzerland’s highest court has opened up the possibility that people with serious mental illnesses could be helped by doctors to take their own lives. Switzerland already allows physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients under certain circumstances. The Federal Tribunal’s decision puts mental illnesses on the same level as physical ones. “It must […]
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An Italian doctor who switched off the life support of a paralysed man at the centre of a battle over euthanasia has been cleared of wrongdoing by a medical panel, in what he called a victory for patients’ rights. Anaesthetist Mario Riccio divided Roman Catholic Italy by granting Piergiorgio Welby his wish to die in […]
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The Swiss Federal Court acknowledges the right to an accompanied suicide as a human right. Also mentally ill are entitled, if they have capacity of discernment. Decision creates legal security. Uster/Wetzikon, February 1st (.-) The Swiss Federal Court has acknowledged the right of a person to determine the way and the point in time of […]
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