Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Sep 13th, 2008
Program for the 17th World Euthanasia Congress in Paris Towards a global recognition of our final freedom Thursday October 30th – Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 Concorde la Fayette Hotel (3, place du Général-Koenig – Paris 17ème) 2 pm – 5 pm: members of ADMD-France will welcome the delegates and distribute the working documents.
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The annual conference and general membership meeting of the highly respected Swiss-German EXIT organisation (50,000 members, who all must be residents of Switzerland) at this years meeting in Zürich 26 April 2008, adopted with overwhelming majority a resolution which requires the organisation at its 2009 meeting, to take a vote on whether their statutes shall […]
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Dr Iain Kerr, a family doctor in Glasgow, UK, was found guilty of misconduct after prescribing the pills to an elderly patient with osteoporosis, who went on kill herself using other drugs. On July 24, 2008 the General Medical Council (GMC) suspended the 61-year-old from practising medicine for six months after a two-week hearing in […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2008
Derek Humphry, journalist and author, founder of the Hemlock Society USA, has written a memoir of his life in England during World War 11, his career in journalism on the London Sunday Times and the Los Angeles Times, and how he came to launch Hemlock. Author of five books on euthanasia, this is a gutsy […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Jul 22nd, 2008
It is not unusual for families to face a huge dilemma over whether to help a loved one die, be it in terminal illness, degenerative conditions, or simply unbearable, extreme old age. Who amongst us will pull the plug? Who will take the responsibility of even being present in moral support? I have read in […]
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More than half of Americans would rather die than live with a severe disability, according to a survey, Reuters reports. In the online poll commissioned by Disaboom, a Web site and social network for people affected by disabilities, 52 percent of the 1,000 “nationally represented” adults chose death over losing the ability to live an […]
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Supporters of a so-called “Death With Dignity” initiative turned in an estimated 320,000 signatures on July 1, 2008, to the Secretary of State’s Office, virtually guaranteeing that Initiative 1000 will be on the November ballot in Washington State, USA. If passed, it would permit physician-assisted suicide for dying adults who are residents and meet the […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on May 21st, 2008
Good Life, Good Death (eBook PDF) Memoir of how a writer became an euthanasia advocate by Derek Humphry Founder of the Hemlock Society (1980-2003) Author of Final Exit NEW! Published May 21, 2008 $12.00 (PDF eBook) • 2008 Not available in paperback 321 pages • 19 chapters with photos http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store ISBN 978-0-9768283-3-4 Born in England, […]
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CLARIFICATIONS Helping the Washington State initiative planned for this November……………… The aim is to introduce a law by citizens’ ballot initiative similar to Oregon’s ten year old physician-assisted dying law. The PAC running the campaign (formerly called It’s My Decision) is now called Yes! on I-1000, www.yeson1000.org Running the campaign is a coalition of right […]
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I would like to clarify the earlier response to a question raised by Alida Westman in regard to the state of Washington I-1000 ballot initiative. First, as an organization Hemlock still exists. The name is owned and registered under a federal trademark by Compassion & Choices. Although “Hemlock” is no longer the overreaching name of […]
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