DHARWAD, India: The recent demise of Vishwaaradhya Siddalingaiah Hiremath (77) who is said to have died of his own accord here, has triggered a debate as to whether self- willed-death could be considered as another form of euthanasia in order to circumvent legal hassles or a glorification of natural death. According to Hiremath’s family sources, […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Dec 25th, 2006
A BOOK that gives detailed advice on suicide, including a recipe for cyanide, has been cleared for publication in Australia. Author Dr Philip Nitschke has now ordered a print run in Australia after the Office of Film and Literature Classification’s board voted to allow the book to be sold in book stores wrapped in plastic […]
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Italy’s Roman Catholic Church has denied the right to a religious funeral to a terminally ill man whose fight to die sparked a fierce euthanasia debate. Piergiorgio Welby died in Rome on Wednesday when a doctor turned off his life support machine at his request. Church officials said they could not grant the request of […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, Opinion Pieces, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2006
What do you call death and an assisted death? By Derek Humphry Recent controversy in Oregon about the best term to describe how a doctor helps a terminally ill person to die under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act (1994) set me thinking about all the terms we use to describe ways of dying and […]
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