Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on May 30th, 2007
More than two-thirds of Americans believe there are circumstances in which a patient should be allowed to die, but they are closely divided on whether it should be legal for a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their own lives by prescribing fatal drugs, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds. The results were released Tuesday, […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on May 24th, 2007
Dr Jack Kevorkian free at last (on June 1, 2007) The Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO) heartily welcomes the release from prison on parole of Dr. Jack Kevorkian after serving eight years of a 10-25 years sentence in Michigan, USA. We hope that he can enjoy a well-deserved retirement — he is 79 — […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on May 23rd, 2007
Jack Kevorkian still supports euthanasia. In a telephone interview with Michigan TV station WJBK, Kevorkian vows to work toward having assisted suicide legalized. However, Kevorkian also says he won’t break any laws doing so. The retired pathologist was sent to prison for up to 25 years in 1999 after he was convicted of murdering a […]
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1. A political stalemate that has left most of New York’s population without critical decision-making powers in end-of-life situations. For years, to end this deplorable situation, the New York State Bar Association has been strongly advocating for a Family Health Care Decisions Act. More than 75 percent of New Yorkers do not have a health […]
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Posted in death, right to die, Uncategorized on May 14th, 2007
There is a long, thoughful, detailed article in the current issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN magazine, starting with the few paragraphs below, which examines the ways that brain damage is assessed. Eyes Open, Brain Shut; May 2007; Scientific American Magazine; by Steven Laureys; 6 Page(s) Recent progress in medical care has greatly increased the number of […]
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The number of euthanasia cases in the Netherlands has dropped over the past few years, though the number of terminal patients receiving palliative sedation has increased. This has emerged from an evaluation of euthanasia legislation presented to State secretary for public health Jet Bussemaker. 2,300 people had their lives terminated by euthanasia in 2005, more […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on May 4th, 2007
The paperback ‘how-to’ book ‘Final Exit’ received both an honor and a blow during April 2007. First, the editors and book critics of the American national newspaper, USA TODAY, selected Derek Humphry’s book as one of the 25 most memorable books of the last quarter century.* Then Google Adwords, the search engine giant’s advertising unit, […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 15th, 2007
The American national newspaper, USA Today, carried the following article on 14 April 2007:- 25 Memorable Books USA Today 25 Memorable Books *25 Books that leave a legacy* Books tell a story about our reading preferences, certainly, but also about what’s happening in our world. USA TODAY’s book editors and critics chose 25 titles that […]
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Many adults in Brazil are opposed to euthanasia, according to a poll by Datafolha published in Folha de Sao Paulo. 57 per cent of respondents are against allowing the intentional death of another person in the event of an incurable disease. Approximately 80 per cent of Brazilians are baptized Roman Catholics. Last year, Brazil’s Federal […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Euthanasia, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Apr 11th, 2007
Two Harvard doctors write in their new book “To Die Well’………… “ADVANTAGES OF HELIUM (page 122) “Many doctors have found that the use of helium is now the speediest and most available method (outside of Oregon) for a patient in this country [USA] to end life when faced with intolerable suffering. Helium has had some […]
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