THE HELIUM HOOD METHOD The world’s leading manufacturer of disposable helium cylinders, Worthington Industries, announced in May 2015 that they would be altering the hitherto pure helium contained in their party balloon cylinders with up to 20% air. Such diluted tanks are not effective in self-deliverance from a terminal or hopeless illness. They are coming […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, right to die, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on Apr 28th, 2015
HASTINGS, Minnesota, April 27, 2015 — The long-awaited trial of Final Exit Network and four of its volunteer Exit Guides has been whittled down to a trial of only the corporation, Final Exit Network, Inc., and none of the Exit Guides. In 2013 the trial court dismissed all the charges against one of the defendants, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit Network, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 17th, 2015
More than a dozen states, plus the District of Columbia, are considering physician-assisted dying legislation this year. The laws would allow mentally fit, terminally ill patients age 18 and older, whose doctors say they have six months or less to live, to request lethal drugs. The prescribing doctors need not be present when the fatal […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on Mar 25th, 2015
The San Jose Mercury News reported 25 March 2015: Right-to-die group offers aid, in secret, as California legislation is debated By Lisa M. Krieger As legislators prepare to debate a “right to die” bill in the state Capitol, volunteers are already helping suffering people end their lives — surreptitiously, without authorization or official oversight — […]
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Go to this website to read the latest newsletter of the Final Exit Network, March 2015 edition: https://files.ctctcdn.com/96fa7d3c301/1545c525-c194-4cb5-bdd0-8a885311c169.pdf
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Mar 9th, 2015
THE fight to legalise medical-assisted suicide for people who are terminally ill will take centre stage in the US this year, with bills filed in 20 states plus the District of Columbia. “I feel it’s a watershed year,” says Peg Sandeen, head of the non-profit Death with Dignity National Center, based in Portland, Oregon, which […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on Feb 13th, 2015
The Star in Canada reported 13 Feb.2015: More than three quarters of Canadians support the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling last week legalizing physician-assisted suicide, according to a new Forum Research poll. The survey of 1,018 adult Canadians conducted Monday and Tuesday, after Friday’s unanimous decision by the top court, found 78 per cent of […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on Jan 5th, 2015
For persons interested in the helium hood method of self-deliverance from a terminal or hopeless illness, this site (it’s graphic) on TUMBLR may be educational: http://gematogentomsk.tumblr.com/
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Dec 31st, 2014
Dr Lawrence D. Egbert, 87, has lost the Maryland medical license he had held for more than 60 years after a disciplinary panel for the Maryland Board of Physicians found that he had engaged in “unprofessional conduct†while working as the medical director for the Final Exit Network, which offers aid to people “who are […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on Dec 10th, 2014
REITH LECTURE: AGING AND DYING I’ve known of (and heard some) of the prestigious BBC Reith Lectures since they began in l948. Therefore it was a surprise and pleasure on Tuesday night, on BBC world radio, to hear ASSISTED DYING freely discussed by Atul Gawande, American surgeon and author, who said he was in favor […]
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