Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Apr 25th, 2010
FILM REVIEW by Richard Cote “YOU DON’T KNOW JACK†In “You Don’t Know Jack,†Dr. Jack Kevorkian (played by Al Pacino), a made-for-television HBO movie, was broadcast in the U.S. on April 24. Its story opens when the unemployed Michigan pathologist, age 60, had found his new calling: hastening the death of patients suffering from […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 22nd, 2010
Canada’s House of Commons has rejected a Bloc Québécois MP’s legislation to permit assisted suicide under strict conditions. Bill C-384 was defeated Wednesday afternoon on second reading by a 228-59 margin. The bill would have allowed doctors to avoid murder and manslaughter charges for helping terminally ill people or those in severe chronic pain to […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 21st, 2010
PRESS RELEASE by Candlelight Records, 20 April 2010: FEAR FACTORY TO START SECOND LEG OF AMERICAN TOUR MID-MAY Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Fear Factory are set to kick off the second leg of their American Fear Campaign tour on May 14 at The Rialto Theater in Tucson, Arizona. The tour, also featuring Prong, and Thy Will Be […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 12th, 2010
U P D A T E THE POSIBILITY OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE FOR THE TERMINALLY OR HOPELESSLY ILL, COMPETENT, ADULT PERSON IN SWITZERLAND Issued by ERGO for information only Physician-assisted suicide is legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Colombia, Albania, Switzerland, and the US states of Washington, Montana and Oregon. All have their own criteria. Except […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Living Will, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 8th, 2010
Go to this link to see an announcement of an interesting new book which deals with hastened death by choice and its impact on the whole family. ‘Imperfect Endings: A daughter’s tale of life and death’ by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter. Worth reading. Copy and paste this URL to see the publisher’s blurb. http://books.simonandschuster.com/Imperfect-Endings/Zoe-FitzGerald-Carter/9781439148242
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