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 Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on Apr 27th, 2008
A terminally ill man who was about to be helped to die via physician-assisted suicide under Oregon’s Death With Dignity law, offered those who were there to help him the information that he had twice voted against the law when it was a ballot initiative in l994 and l997. But now that he needed assisted […]
Posted in death, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 14th, 2008
A German lawyer and politician has unveiled Europe’s first suicide machine for people with a death wish as “an act of Christian love”. The machine that can be rented and is then collected to be re-used by other clients kills painlessly at the push of a button. It was unveiled by Dr Roger Kusch, 53, […]
Posted in death, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2008
Two weeks ago the leader of the right to life movement in Oregon attacked in the Register-Guard (Eugene) the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, which permits physician-assisted suicide, on the grounds that in 2007 not a single patient who wanted a hastened death had been sent for psychological evaluation. The law says this must be […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on Apr 7th, 2008
Hillary Clinton told the editorial board of the Eugene Register-Guard Q: What’s your attitude toward Oregon’s assisted suicide law? A: I believe it’s within the province of the states to make that decision. I commend Oregon on this count, as well, because whether I agree with it or not or think it’s a good idea […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 27th, 2008
A severely disfigured French woman, found dead this month after a court rejected her request for euthanasia, took a lethal overdose of barbiturates, a prosecutor said on Thursday. Former schoolteacher Chantal Sebire, 52, suffered from a rare and incurable tumour which severely deformed her face and caused her to lose the sense of smell, taste […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 24th, 2008
The hardcopy paperback ‘Final Exit’ 3rd edition by Derek Humphry touched the 5,061 mark in Amazon.com’s sales listing today. You can download an even more up-to-date digitized edition at www.finalexit.org/ergo-store
Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 21st, 2008
Terminally-ill patients in the Netherlands increasingly receive drugs to render them unconscious until death, according to a study that suggests people are substituting deep sedation for legal euthanasia. The researchers found that 1,800 people — 7.1 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2005 — were drugged into so-called continuous deep sedation shortly before […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 20th, 2008
The simultaneous deaths of the writer Hugo Claus in Belgium and Chantal Sébire in France are a demonstration that our goal is not the choice between life and death,but between 2 different ways of dying. Hugo Claus was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and decided to leave on his own terms at the moment he chose and […]
Posted in Blogroll, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 18th, 2008
The New York Times health section carried this article on 18 March 08: Terminal Options for the Irreversibly Ill, By JANE E. BRODY My Feb. 5 column, “A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit,†prompted a deluge of information and requests for information on how people too sick to reap meaningful pleasure from life might […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 17th, 2008
PARIS (Reuters) – A woman suffering from an incurable and disfiguring cancer failed on Monday (17 Mar) in her bid to set a legal precedent in France for patients seeking medical help to end their own lives. A court in the eastern city of Dijon ruled that Chantal Sebire, 52, could not have a doctor […]
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