Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit Network, People in the News, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Jul 9th, 2015
A Baltimore Circuit Court judge denied Dr.Lawrence Egbert’s request to reinstate his medical license Thursday, but not before expressing some sympathy for the right-to-die advocate linked to six deaths in Maryland. Judge Marcus Z. Shar explained to Egbert, who represented himself in court, that his powers to review the case were limited. After finding that […]
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California lawmakers on Tuesday dropped efforts to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives. The authors of the legislation that would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs did not have enough support to get it through committees amid fierce religious opposition. Sponsors vowed to continue the fight. Aid-in-dying advocates had said they would […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide on Jun 28th, 2015
THE ECONOMIST — 27 June 2015: Doctor-assisted dying – The right to die Doctors should be allowed to help the suffering and terminally ill to die when they choose …….. The Economist makes a well-argued case for assisted dying in its current issue. It is too long to publish here; suggest you access it at […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on Jun 12th, 2015
The next World Federation of Right to Die Societies Congress will take place from 11 – 14 May 2016 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.The conference will be hosted by NVVE, the Dutch right-to-die society. The conference title is “Euthanasia 2016 – Professional challenges.” Visit the special website for regularly updated, further information: www.euthanasia2016.org
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Germany’s Bundestag has been presented with two draft bills aimed at expanding suicide help for patients with no hope of recovery. The right to die has been a hotly debated topic across Europe in recent years. Germany inched ever closer to joining its neighbor Belgium in allowing active assisted suicide on Tuesday as two new […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death on May 16th, 2015
Press release from the Final Exit Network Minnesota Case: Final Exit Network Found Guilty Of a Crime For Showing Compassion HASTINGS, Minnesota, May 14 — A 12-member jury found Final Exit Network, Inc. guilty of “assisting†in a “suicide†and interfering with the scene of a death so as to “mislead†the coroner. A five-woman, […]
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Final Exit Network trial begins Monday Two of the four criminal charges pending against Final Exit Network, Inc. in Hastings, Minnesota were dismissed Friday morning. Before the dismissal, the not-for-profit corporation was charged with two felonies: assisting in a “suicide,” and “aiding and abetting” to assist in a “suicide”; and two “gross” misdemeanors, interfering with […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, right to die, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on Apr 28th, 2015
HASTINGS, Minnesota, April 27, 2015 — The long-awaited trial of Final Exit Network and four of its volunteer Exit Guides has been whittled down to a trial of only the corporation, Final Exit Network, Inc., and none of the Exit Guides. In 2013 the trial court dismissed all the charges against one of the defendants, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit Network, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 17th, 2015
More than a dozen states, plus the District of Columbia, are considering physician-assisted dying legislation this year. The laws would allow mentally fit, terminally ill patients age 18 and older, whose doctors say they have six months or less to live, to request lethal drugs. The prescribing doctors need not be present when the fatal […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Oregon law, People in the News, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 29th, 2015
TWO WOMEN PIONEERS MAKING THE DIFFERENCE Forty years ago today Jean Humphry used physician-assisted suicide to end her life at age 42. She was in an advanced stage of cancer metastasized from breast cancer two years earlier. She fought to live, had three chemotherapies, and good pain control from caring doctors. A few months earlier, […]
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