Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 31st, 2007
By Derek Humphry The release of Dr Jack Kevorkian is welcome news. He has suffered the eight years of imprisonment with calm and fortitude and deserves a peaceful retirement. But the thought he might have any influence on further developments does not make any sense. And while we are currently among the media circus surrounding […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on May 30th, 2007
More than two-thirds of Americans believe there are circumstances in which a patient should be allowed to die, but they are closely divided on whether it should be legal for a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their own lives by prescribing fatal drugs, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds. The results were released Tuesday, […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on May 24th, 2007
Dr Jack Kevorkian free at last (on June 1, 2007) The Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO) heartily welcomes the release from prison on parole of Dr. Jack Kevorkian after serving eight years of a 10-25 years sentence in Michigan, USA. We hope that he can enjoy a well-deserved retirement — he is 79 — […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on May 23rd, 2007
Jack Kevorkian still supports euthanasia. In a telephone interview with Michigan TV station WJBK, Kevorkian vows to work toward having assisted suicide legalized. However, Kevorkian also says he won’t break any laws doing so. The retired pathologist was sent to prison for up to 25 years in 1999 after he was convicted of murdering a […]
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1. A political stalemate that has left most of New York’s population without critical decision-making powers in end-of-life situations. For years, to end this deplorable situation, the New York State Bar Association has been strongly advocating for a Family Health Care Decisions Act. More than 75 percent of New Yorkers do not have a health […]
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Posted in death, right to die, Uncategorized on May 14th, 2007
There is a long, thoughful, detailed article in the current issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN magazine, starting with the few paragraphs below, which examines the ways that brain damage is assessed. Eyes Open, Brain Shut; May 2007; Scientific American Magazine; by Steven Laureys; 6 Page(s) Recent progress in medical care has greatly increased the number of […]
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The number of euthanasia cases in the Netherlands has dropped over the past few years, though the number of terminal patients receiving palliative sedation has increased. This has emerged from an evaluation of euthanasia legislation presented to State secretary for public health Jet Bussemaker. 2,300 people had their lives terminated by euthanasia in 2005, more […]
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A total of 76 Britons with terminal illnesses have ended their lives at the Dignitas Clinic in Zurich since it was founded in 1999. Between 2003 and 2006, an average of 14 people a year made the trip, (The Independent reported), while 34 have done so since January 2006. “It is appalling that the current […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on May 4th, 2007
The paperback ‘how-to’ book ‘Final Exit’ received both an honor and a blow during April 2007. First, the editors and book critics of the American national newspaper, USA TODAY, selected Derek Humphry’s book as one of the 25 most memorable books of the last quarter century.* Then Google Adwords, the search engine giant’s advertising unit, […]
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