Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, RTD News on Sep 5th, 2019
The demographics of patients seeking medical aid in dying (MAID) seem to be similar in both Oregon and Washington, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. In a group of 3,368 prescriptions from 1998 to 2017 in Oregon and 2009 to 2017 in Washington, most patients in both states were insured, non-Hispanic white, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Azheimer's, Books, degerative illness, Dementia, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, Self-Deliverance on Aug 28th, 2019
Two new books of interest, both by psychiatrists who believe in the philosophy of assisted dying when desired and appropriate: “A Dignified Ending: Taking Control Over How We Die” by Lewis Mitchel Cohen, MD. Hardback. (Rowman & Littlefield, NY 2019) +++++ “O, Let Me Not Get ALZHEIMER’S Sweet Heaven! Why Many People Prefer Death or […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Jean's Way, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News on Aug 11th, 2019
Published annual reports from the Oregon Health Authority and Washington State Department of Health that ranged from 1998 to 2017 in Oregon and from 2009 to 2017 in Washington show some interesting facts about how the law is used. They found that 2,558 – 76% – of the 3,368 written prescriptions resulted in patients’ deaths, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, helium death, Hemlock, Nembutal, Nitrogen, physician-assisted suicide, Self-Deliverance on Jun 27th, 2019
Literature from Derek Humphry: Final Exit, Digital Edition eBook or paperack in the mail. Updated 25th Anniversary Edition and ‘How To Make Your Own Inert Gas Hood Kit’ 06/2019 Go to https://www.finalexit.org
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Dementia, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Elder suicide, Final Exit, Hastings Center, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, Suicide (rational) on Jun 10th, 2019
The Hastings Center has announced a significant research project: ‘Dementia and the Ethics of Choosing When to Die’ will focus on basic issues surrounding an individual’s ability to exercise end of life choices when suffering from dementia. Here’s a one significant paragraph extract from the announcement: In 2018, 5.7 million Americans were living with dementia. […]
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Various forms of medical assisted dying have been approved in the following states and nations. Each law has its own limits, rules and guidelines. All but Switzerland forbid foreigners this type of help to die. Only Canada, the Netherlands and Belgium permit chosen death via doctor lethal injection; all others are by doctor prescription which […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Opinion Pieces, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 31st, 2019
By Derek Humphry What’s in a word? Is saying ‘suicide’ as in ‘assisted suicide’ preferable, or is it better to use an euphemism like ‘assisted dying’? From the start in l980 we at the Hemlock Society always bluntly called the medical helping to die procedures ‘physician-assisted suicide’ and, when carried out alone, ‘self-deliverance’. We stressed […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Switzerland on Mar 4th, 2019
It has always been a puzzle that the UK has made no progress in choices-in-dying legislation despite many other countries have done so. Since 1936 there have about 12 attempts at law reform in the Westminster parliament — all failed. And this is supposed to be the ‘mother of democracies’! Reading the new opinion poll […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Dec 18th, 2018
Assisted suicide used to be a taboo subject but now, as VARIETY magazine reports, it’s a plot in a forthcoming TV comedy series! Progress? ‘Veep’ Star Timothy Simons to Develop Assisted-Suicide Comedy at HBO By Joe Otterson Variety has learned that the “Veep†star is developing a half-hour comedy at the premium cabler HBO titled […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Dec 11th, 2018
Isn’t it amazing that in Minnesota nowadays you can obtain my book FINAL EXIT at bookstores or libraries but you break the law when you verbally tell a person its contents! The USA nonprofit advice group, FINAL EXIT NETWORK, out of Florida, has been fined $30,000 plus costs for advising a very sick woman who […]
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