Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Living Will, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, Self-Deliverance, Switzerland on May 13th, 2021
The paperback book ‘Final Exit’ has sold out worldwide. PenguinRandomHouse is rushing out a new printing. This is a 30-year-old guidebook for the terminally and degeneratively ill adult at the end of life. Frequently updated. The mention of the book on the new movie NOMADLAND is the cause. But it is instantly available on KINDLE, […]
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A doctor who helped a mentally ill woman take her life has once more been cleared of intentional homicide. (This content was first published on May 7, 2021 –by Swissinfo/ch) A Swiss appeals court in canton Basel rejected attempts by prosecutors to overturn a 2019 verdict that had cleared the doctor of murder. The court […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, death, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Living Will, right to die, Self-Deliverance on May 2nd, 2021
We’ve had an extraordinary demand for the book ‘Final Exit’ since it is mentioned in the movie NOMADLAND, (3 Oscars 2021) thus delivery will be slower than usual — but certain….the publishers have had to go back to press. Derek Humphry is the author, not Dr. Kevorkian as the movie character mistakenly says. But it […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, Switzerland on Apr 17th, 2021
Scotland is edging towards enacting legislation that will give dying patients the right to end their lives. The SNP has pledged, if re-elected, to set up a citizen’s assembly representing a cross-section of society to look at legalizing assisted dying. The Scottish Greens, who may form a coalition government with the SNP after May’s election, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, New Mexico, physician-assisted suicide, Switzerland on Apr 8th, 2021
The governor of NEW MEXICO has just signed into law the End of Life Options Act. This is the 11th U.S. state to allow people with terminal illness to die the. way they want. There is a handy research tool on this subject the Death with Dignity National Center website: https://www.deathwithdignity.org/state-statute-navigator
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Author error in new movie “Nomadland” ( 3 Oscars 2021) CORRECTION re the book ‘Final Exit’ Beginning at the 37-minute mark of this fine movie, the protagonist is having one of many “slice of life”-type conversations with a new friend who suddenly appears to be sick. The new friend explains that she had small-cell lung […]
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Posted in 'Last Wish', Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Living Will, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Switzerland on Apr 1st, 2021
Dr Henry Marsh: The law insists that I suffer until the end Dr Henry Marsh Friday April 02 2021 After many decades of working with patients facing death, a recent diagnosis of advanced cancer means that I now face death myself — possibly within a year, perhaps up to five years or more if I […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Canada assisted dying laws, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Nembutal, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Switzerland on Apr 1st, 2021
March was a month of legislative action: Spain legalized euthanasia, Canada finally signed Bill C-7 into law and the Tasmanian VAD Bill passed the final vote in the Lower House. Unfortunately, the Portugese Constitutional Court overturned the in January approved euthanasia bill. However, the decision left open the option to euthanasia provided that the legislation […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Azheimer's, Canada assisted dying laws, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law on Mar 18th, 2021
Canada has expanded the scope of its laws on medically assisted death to include people whose demise is not foreseeable and opened the door for the mentally ill to have the procedure. The law, given royal assent on Wednesday, revamps assisted death in Canada and comes as assisted suicide is legalised in Spain, fulfilling a […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Good Death, Jean's Way, Living Will, Nitrogen, right to die, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 20th, 2021
Did you happen to see Friday night’s program “Father Brown” on PBS TV ? Show name: ‘The Angel of Mercy.’ It featured two deaths which at first seemed normal to the police but which the great ministerial R.C. ‘detective’ suspected to be murder. He eventually found that both persons, who had advanced cancer, had […]
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