Weblog of Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit, serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults for 30 years
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jun 14th, 2009
Defense fund started for the 7 workers of the Final Exit Network who were present when people took their lives to escape further suffering.
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 31st, 2009
Police in Middlebury, Connecticut, say the death of an elderly woman last year, which was originally ruled to be natural causes, could be connected to the Final Exit Network, a right-to-die organization. Police received a tip from police in Georgia that led investigators to obtain a search warrant for an Old Saybrook home where they […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on May 30th, 2009
A Dutch court sentenced the chairman of an assisted suicide lobby group on 29 May to 10 months in jail, eight suspended, for helping a sick, 80-year-old woman kill herself. The woman died in November 2007 after taking a lethal dose of pentobarbital, which prosecutors said was supplied to her children by the lobbyist after […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 22nd, 2009
The Associated Press newsagency reported on 22 May 2009: Man ordered held in assisted suicide case By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A Las Vegas man was ordered held without bond Friday for allegedly trying to smuggle the same type of animal tranquilizers into the country that authorities say may have […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 16th, 2009
As regional coordinator of the Final Exit Network, I have had reports of members being harassed by local police in response to a directive by the Georgia State police. It seems the GSPD contacts the targeted State police (in one case NJ) , who in turn contacts local police departments, with the directive to visit […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance on May 15th, 2009
Police Use Totalitarian Tactics to Shut Down Non-Profit — press release May 15, 2009 PHOENIX, Ariz. – Three more senior citizen volunteers from Final Exit Network, Inc., an organization of right-to-die activists, have been indicted in a widening effort by a small handful of local authorities to shut down the nationwide not-for-profit corporation’s advocacy program. […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 10th, 2009
There has been a lot of talk recently of getting from Mexico bottles of veterinary Nembutal for self-deliverance. Some reports claim one bottle is enough. True, one bottle of veterinary Nembutal (6 gms) will end the life of a frail, elderly person already close to death, but a physically strong person, healthy in all ways […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 7th, 2009
Some of us in America are fascinated by the British reaction to Dr. Philip Nitschke’s current tour of Britain. I write as a citizen of the UK and USA and a ‘right to die’ watcher for 30 years. The British public is fed up with its government’s refusal to modify the laws on assisted suicide. […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 1st, 2009
There is a significant and fascinating article in the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ of 1 May which is a lengthy article that begins… A year ago, when a doctor finally diagnosed the brain disease that had been making it harder for her to walk without falling, Rona Zelniker told her son and daughter that she was going […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 29th, 2009
Take a look at the interesting YouTube video by the Final Exit Network team athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z1evoiPMHA
Assisted-Dying Blog
Weblog of Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit, serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults for 30 years
There are 792 Posts and 820 Comments so far.