At last there is some movement towards better choices in dying in a European country which is always slow to reform. Austria’s Constitutional Court has issued two important decisions. It held it unconstitutional to prohibit assisting suicide. According to the Court’s press release: At the request of several people affected, including two seriously ill people, […]
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Posted in 'Last Wish', Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Good Death, Living Will, People in the News, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News on Nov 17th, 2020
Betty Rollin’s husband wanted physician-assisted dying but being in New York he could not have it. The New York Tines obituary on him said, in part: Harold Edwards, known by his large circle of friends as Ed, died of colon cancer on November 10 at 84 at his home in New York City. He was […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Dementia, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Elder suicide, Euthanasia, Hemlock, Jean's Way, physician-assisted suicide, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Sep 29th, 2020
MY OPINION Nowadays it’s fashionable to use euphemisms for elderly suicide, self- deliverance and doctor-assisted suicide. Old age self-killing is now called the ‘completed life’. The arguments for and against are already laid out in dozens of articles and books, almost entirely by academics and physicians (see Google). Thus, I will summarize mine as a […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Dementia, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, helium death, Hemlock, Jean's Way, Living Will, Nembutal, Nitrogen, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Seconal, Self-Deliverance, Switzerland on Jul 5th, 2020
You might like to take a look at my video on YouTube re my latest book (Ebook) at https://www.youtube.com/the final exit It concerns thoughtful advance planning about the end of life.
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Apr 4th, 2020
The Encyclopedia Britannica recently asked me to name the four most important dates in my campaign for choices in dying at life’s end. This was my reply: 1980 Derek Humphry founded the Hemlock Society USA in Los Angeles, the first group in US to advocate self-deliverance and medical assisted dying at the end of life. […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Opinion Pieces, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 3rd, 2020
Many of us who support the right to choose at life’s end will sympathize with this letter to the editor of the New York Times from Final Exit Network published on April 2, 2020. To the Editor: “I Love the World, but I Cannot Stay,” by Mary Pipher (Sunday Review, March 8), captures a sentiment […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, helium death, Hemlock, Nembutal, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Seconal, Self-Deliverance, Switzerland on Dec 20th, 2019
FINAL EXIT 2020 Ebook just out A reader of the new Ebook writes: I ordered the online copy some weeks ago but only recently got around to reading it all. Congratulations! I think you have done a fine job of laying the basic information out there for people to read and learn. I am very […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, Seconal on Dec 5th, 2019
The outrageous cost of the two most effective drugs used in Medical Aid in Dying are at last being questioned by Senators and Congress reps in Washington. Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and U.S. Reps. Earl Blumenauer, Peter DeFazio, Suzanne Bonamici and Kurt Schrader have questioned the Drug Enforcement Agency […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Dementia, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, helium death, Hemlock, Jean's Way, Living Will, Nembutal, Nitrogen, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Nov 22nd, 2019
Final Exit 2020 is only available through the ERGO Bookstore. Order and download the eBook at https://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store
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New voluntary assisted dying clinic opens in Basel, Switzerland Pegasos Swiss Association (https://pegasos-association.com/) Established in August 2019, Pegasos is a Swiss voluntary assisted dying (VAD) association based in Basel, Switzerland. Pegasos was founded in August 2019 by the same Swiss professionals who helped 104-year old Professor David Goodall to die in Basel in May 2018. […]
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