Posted in 'Last Wish', Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit Network, Oregon law, right to die, RTD Organizations, Switzerland on Jan 27th, 2021
There is a lengthy and accurate article about the right-to-die in Bloomberg Business news. The author describes his father’s well-laid plans to achieve a good end to his life. Below is a tiny extract. Suggest going to read the whole article at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-27/death-with-dignity-how-i-helped-my-dad-die Extract: I later learned of popular how-to books such as Final Exit, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Oregon law, People in the News, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News on Dec 26th, 2020
BRUCE YELLE, of Florence, Oregon, a great campaigner for the rights of terminally ill people, died on 24 December 2020. He was 67. He had pancreatic cancer. In 2018 He founded End of Life Choices to fight for improvements to Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act 1988. Bruce had deliberately moved home from California to Oregon […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Living Will, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance on Dec 23rd, 2020
ERGO’s mission is that making solid progress — via acceptability and legality — is best achieved by the international exchange of pertinent literature, news and views. Our aim is to give choices in dying to the terminally and degenerative ill adult; people with issues contact ERGO daily. Since 1995, we have funded the organization through […]
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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 Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Living Will, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, Switzerland on Nov 11th, 2020
People are constantly asking what is the situation on doctor-assisted dying for the terminally ill in the USA. The legal scholar Thaddeus Pope has published a new and insightful article on the state-to-state differences for medical aid in dying. This is an abstract: Medical Aid in Dying: Key Variations Among U.S. State Laws Thaddeus Mason […]
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Posted in Derek Humphry, Elder suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Mexico, Nembutal, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Nov 2nd, 2020
Many people ask me where is it easiest to get nembutal in Mexico? Veterinary Nembutal can be bought in vet/animal stores in Mexico but it has to be searched out. Some stores will have it, some not, some unwilling. There is no sure place! Those in the countryside are most likely. This is the feedback […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on Oct 30th, 2020
Progress towards wider medical assisted choice in dying at life’s end…… With bipartisan backing, New Zealand has just passed a progressive law. Now, beginning on Nov. 6 of next year, doctors will be able to legally prescribe a lethal dose of medicine to patients suffering from terminal illnesses. “What a great day to be a […]
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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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Anthony Lester, a London lawyer, who often fought cases concerning right-to-die issues has died. When on the Sunday Times staff in the l960s and l970s I often worked with him – a remarkable man – on campaigns. Following are two extracts from a lengthy obituary in The Times of 10 August 2020: Extract 1 from […]
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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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