According to a study by INED (National Institute for Demographic Studies), between a quarter and a half of deaths in Europe will have followed a medical intervention, which could have shortened life. Carried out in Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland in 2001/2 this study shows that these deaths, all of which concerned only the […]
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EUTHANASIA LAW UNDER DISCUSSION [in Russia]: The Federation Council has been preparing legislation that would legalize euthanasia in Russia, according to information received. If passed, the new law would allow people to request assisted suicide if sanctioned by a commission of doctors, lawyers and representatives from the prosecutor’s office. For now only patients’ rights organizations […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 15th, 2007
The American national newspaper, USA Today, carried the following article on 14 April 2007:- 25 Memorable Books USA Today 25 Memorable Books *25 Books that leave a legacy* Books tell a story about our reading preferences, certainly, but also about what’s happening in our world. USA TODAY’s book editors and critics chose 25 titles that […]
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Many adults in Brazil are opposed to euthanasia, according to a poll by Datafolha published in Folha de Sao Paulo. 57 per cent of respondents are against allowing the intentional death of another person in the event of an incurable disease. Approximately 80 per cent of Brazilians are baptized Roman Catholics. Last year, Brazil’s Federal […]
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Mexico’s Senate has began discussing the legalization of right to die, adding to a spate of liberal moves in the country that includes the sanctioning of gay civil unions and abortion. The bill’s sponsor said it would permit the terminally ill to go off medical treatment and end prosecution of doctors who follow patients’ wishes […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Euthanasia, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Apr 11th, 2007
Two Harvard doctors write in their new book “To Die Well’………… “ADVANTAGES OF HELIUM (page 122) “Many doctors have found that the use of helium is now the speediest and most available method (outside of Oregon) for a patient in this country [USA] to end life when faced with intolerable suffering. Helium has had some […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2007
On March 29, the upper chamber (Senate) of the Congress of Colombia held a “public hearing” on the proposed law that would fully legalize euthanasia in Colombia, following the Constitutional Court sentence of 1997. Senator Luis Fernando Velasco, chairman of the reporting committee on the law project, presided. Representatives of the Catholic Church, the Anglican […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 9th, 2007
The Worldwide Quest For The Peaceful Pill For many years there has been an urban myth that there exists a little red pill which, when swallowed, brings instant death, thus wonderfully relieving the sufferer from further pain. I have had requests for it scores of times from folk who genuinely believed such a fatal capsule […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Opinion Pieces, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News on Apr 7th, 2007
ONE in five people will die a “shameful death” alone, ravaged by dementia and without dignity, new British research claims. A book by sociology professor Allan Kellehear, A Social History Of Dying, argues this kind of death would be considered “shameful†by previous generations. In a bleak portrait of death in the 21st century, the […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 6th, 2007
USA Today, Thu, 05 Apr 2007 3:08 PM PDT Excerpt from ‘Final Exit’ http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/excerpts/2007-04-05-final-exit_N.htm?csp=34 Author: Derek Humphry
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