Germany’s medical community has liberalized its code on helping sick patients die, giving more freedom to individual doctors. The change reflects a growing acceptance of assisted suicide among German doctors. The German Medical Association has presented new guidelines for physician-assisted suicide, allowing greater leeway for doctors to rely on their own conscience when deciding whether […]
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For the umpteenth time, lawmakers in America have dithered, or used their religious beliefs, to let the public down. This Montana case is a classic — the Supreme Court there approved the right to physician-assisted suicide but now the legislature won’t set up any rules or guidelines for how doctors and patients can use it. […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 4th, 2011
Last week’s Sundance Film Festival winner for the best documentary video was ‘How to Die in Oregon’ in which I have a tiny cameo role explaining the history of how the physician-assisted suicide law came about. Overall, I’m told, it is a very moving film; not seen it yet. The film will be showing at […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, Suicide (rational) on Jan 31st, 2011
“How to Die in Oregon,†an intimate and poignant film about the impact of Oregon’s 1994 Death With Dignity Act, won the Grand Jury Prize in the U. S. Documentary Competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, one of the most prestigious awards that can be won by a non-fiction film anywhere in the world. […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jan 10th, 2011
By Derek Humphry By far the worst and most wrenching dilemma in the field of a person’s right to choose to die involves victims of Alzheimer’s Disease. Once the disease has got hold, are they ever able to make a decision about ending their life? Suicide is not a crime, but assistance in the act […]
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Pioneering Hemlock Society member dies Shirley Carroll O’Connor, who was the first person to join the Hemlock Society when it was formed on 12 August 1980, died on 16 December 2010. Shirley was 93. She lived in the Laguna Hills area of California. Up to the end she was still a volunteer worker for Compassion […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Dec 15th, 2010
The Mailonline in London reported 15 Dec 10: No charges in 20 assisted-suicide cases as public prosecution is accused of re-writing law By Steve Doughty The Director of Public Prosecutions [in England] has declined to bring charges against at least 20 people suspected of helping others to commit suicide, it was revealed yesterday. Keir Starmer […]
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Courthouse news service for 14 Dec 10 reported: ATLANTA (CN) – A woman with Huntington’s disease and two members of the Final Exit Network challenged the constitutionality of Georgia’s in “Offering to Assist in Suicide Statute” in Federal Court. Pointing out that neither suicide nor attempted suicide are illegal in Georgia, they call the law […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Nov 19th, 2010
A maker of Darvon and Darvocet has agreed to take the products off the market because the drugs increase the risk for serious abnormal heart rhythms, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced. Darvon, which contains the active ingredient propoxyphene, has been on the U.S. market for more than 50 years and was developed by […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Oct 7th, 2010
Report of the NuTech Workshop at the World Conference of Right to Die Societies in Melbourne (NOTE: NuTech is short for ‘New Technologies for Self-Deliverance, founded 1999 as an international research group for new ways of ending one’s life without a doctor when terminally ill. NuTech invented the widely-used helium hood method.) By Faye Girsh […]
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