Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 14th, 2012
PRESS RELEASE from the Final Exit Network May 14, 2012 MINNESOTA PROSECUTOR OBTAINS GRAND JURY INDICTMENT OF FINAL EXIT NETWORK AND FOUR OF ITS VOLUNTEERS HASTINGS, Minnesota — James Backstrom, the Dakota County prosecutor, called a press conference to deny that he has initiated a war on the right-to-die movement by securing a 17-count indictment […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 8th, 2012
PRESS RELEASE May 7, 2012 INDICTMENT OF FINAL EXIT NETWORK VOLUNTEERS IS EXPECTED THIS WEEK IN HASTINGS, MINNESOTA HASTINGS, Minnesota — James C. Backstrom, the prosecutor in this suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul, is launching an attack on the right-to-die movement. Backstrom has publicly revealed plans to secure grand jury indictments this Friday (May 11, 2012) […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Hemlock, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Mar 12th, 2012
By Derek Humphry If there is anybody in the right-to-die movement who made a radical difference it was Dr. Peter Goodwin, who brought his life to an end on 11 March 2012 in the presence of his family, using the law he helped to pass. Aged 83, he suffered from an incurable brain illness. Up […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 16th, 2012
“How to die in Oregon” a video by Peter Richardson The DVD of this prize-winning documentary is now available to order OUTSIDE the US and Canada. Here’s the link to order: http://www.filmbaby.com/films/5819 ==== To order WITHIN the USA and Canada, go to the DVD distributor’s webpage: http://bit.ly/sIn4JK ===== NOTE: This is not an ERGO project, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, GLADD, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jan 28th, 2012
After researching the development and use of the helium self-deliverance method for five years as NuTech’s unofficial historian, I can assure readers of this blog of two things with certainty: 1. The “party balloon kit” helium tanks contain 100.00% helium, with no other gases. 2. Misstatements to the contrary have no basis whatsoever in fact, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on Dec 30th, 2011
At least two-thirds of Canadians support assisted suicide, according to a Forum Research poll for the National Post. The poll found 67 per cent of Canadians favor legalizing doctor-assisted suicide of terminally ill patients. In Ontario only 60 per cent of residents agreed. The poll shows support is highest among men and respondents under the […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Nov 27th, 2011
************************************************** To view Derek Humphry’s opinion on Alzheimers Disease and the possibility of self-deliverance from it, visit this site on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFinalExit#p/a/u/0/_jHcVEhZc_Y Four minutes long – “The Tragic Dilemma of Alzheimer’s” ****************************************************
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Nov 6th, 2011
QUIETLY, GEORGIA BECOMES FOURTH STATE TO LEGALIZE PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE By Robert Rivas, General Counsel, Final Exit Network, Tallahassee, Florida ATLANTA, Georgia — Without fanfare, Georgia has become the fourth state in the United States to legalize physician-assisted suicide, the attorney general of Georgia disclosed in a brief before the Supreme Court of Georgia. Until now, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, GLADD, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Oct 7th, 2011
PLEASE NOTE: This pamphlet is outdated. 08/2020 Information now in the Ebook “Final Exit 2020” at https://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store —————— How To Make Your Own Helium Hood Kit Information for competent adults who are terminally or hopelessly ill and wish to die 2011 Addendum to Chapter 23 of Final Exit book & Final Exit on DVD By […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Sep 9th, 2011
A new position paper just published by the Dutch Physicians Association (KNMG) says unbearable and lasting suffering should not be the only criteria physicians consider when a patient requests euthanasia. The KNMG says the new guidelines will clarify the responsibilities, possibilities and limitations that physicians have within the regulations of the 2002 euthanasia law (Termination […]
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