Montpelier, Vt (USA) — The Vermont House Human Services Committee hearing continues on the recently reintroduced assisted-suicide bill (H.44). — Full text of House Bill 44 (H.44) introduced to The Vermont General Assembly is available at http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/bills/intro/H-044.HTM Subject: Health; end of life; patient-directed dying AN ACT RELATING TO PATIENT CHOICE AND CONTROL AT END OF […]
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For those interested, besides the just released and previously mentioned 2006 report, other documents related to Oregon’s Death With Dignity (DWD) Act are available through the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) website (PDF reader not required to read most of the following documents):
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The State of Oregon’s “Death with Dignity” 2006 Annual Report is now up and available on the Oregon Department of Human Services website. The Oregon Death With Dignity (DWD) Act is Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide (PAS) law, supported at the polls by a majority of Oregon voters twice, once in 1994 and again in 1997. The […]
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The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) board of directors approved an updated “physician-assisted death” policy statement on Feb.14, 2007 “The AAHPM takes a position of ‘studied neutrality’ on the subject of whether PAD (physician-assisted death) should be legally regulated or prohibited, believing its members should instead continue to strive to find the […]
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Backers of a proposal to allow terminally ill Californians to hasten their deaths with lethal drugs pointed Thursday to legalized assisted suicide in Oregon, where a new report shows it is used sparingly. Forty-six Oregon residents, most of them cancer patients, used the law to end their lives in 2006, according to the Oregon Department […]
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Zurich University Hospital has revealed that a ban on assisted suicide on its premises has been in place since the beginning of February. Leading Swiss hospitals have been debating whether to allow assisted suicide on their premises since Lausanne University Hospital decided in 2005 to allow assisted suicide under strict conditions from January 1, 2006. […]
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Some 2,000 French doctors and nurses issued a joint call for euthanasia to be legalized in the country, arguing that mercy killings are already widely practiced by the French medical profession, in a text to be printed Thursday. In the manifesto, to appear in the Nouvel Observateur weekly, all claim to have helped patients to […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Mar 4th, 2007
EIGHT out of 10 Australians believe the terminally ill should have a right to choose a medically assisted death, according to a new poll out today. The Newspoll research, conducted in February, found 80 per cent of adults surveyed supported the terminally ill’s right to voluntary euthanasia. Just 14 per cent were opposed and 6 […]
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