SWISS ATTITUDES TO DYING Interest in choosing how and when to die has risen dramatically of late. More than 1,200 people underwent an assisted suicide in Switzerland last year, over a third more than in the previous year. In 2014, 742 people (320 men and 422 women) chose an assisted suicide, according to the Federal […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death on Jul 7th, 2016
The Atlantic magazine has published in its current issue a fine article about Final Exit Network’s Exit Guide program. Here it is: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/07/the-volunteers-who-help-people-end-their-own-lives/489602/?utm_source=atltw
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on Jul 5th, 2016
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found the following in a survey: Summary: Despite increasing legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) worldwide, the practice remains relatively rare and, when carried out, is primarily motivated by psychological factors such as loss of autonomy or enjoyment of life, rather than physical pain. […]
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The Supreme Court of New Mexico has ruled that terminally ill New Mexicans do not have a constitutionally protected right to enlist a doctor’s help to end their lives. Justice Edward L. Chavez wrote in his opinion, released 06.29.16, that the court recognized the “magnitude and importance of the very personal desire of a terminally […]
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ERGO/Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ellen Barfield, (410) 243-5876 DEATH WITH DIGNITY ADVOCATE DR. LAWRENCE EGBERT DIES Lawrence D. Egbert, MD, MPH, the Baltimore anesthesiologist whose leadership in the right-to-die movement cost him his Maryland license to practice medicine, died of a heart attack June 9. He was 88. Dr. Egbert, […]
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Canada has at long last passed a doctor-assisted suicide law for the advanced terminally ill (06.10.16). New law does not include persons with degenerative illnesses, old age, handicap or mental health problems. It is similar to the laws already on the West Coast of US — after various guidelines and waiting periods, a doctor can […]
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The Canadian government has rejected a proposed Senate amendment that would make it easier for Canadians to get medical help to end their lives. Health Minister Jane Philpott and Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould announced Thursday that the government will accept most of the seven amendments the Senate approved to their controversial assisted-death bill, known as […]
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Australian Border Force has seized and destroyed copies of a book that provides information on euthanasia and assisted suicide to the elderly and the seriously ill. The Peaceful Pill Handbook, written by euthanasia advocate and former doctor, Philip Nitschke, is published in Holland but copies have been seized on arrival in Australia. People who have […]
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DEATH OF LARRY EGBERT Dr. Lawrence Deems Egbert, 87, has died. He suffered a heart attack on Thursday and died without suffering. He lived in Baltimore. He leaves a widow, Ellen Barfield. Larry was extensively involved in the right-to-die movement for many years, and was formerly medical director of the Final Exit Network. In his […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, physician-assisted suicide, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death on May 27th, 2016
A few interesting sites relevant to right-to-die to view this weekend: At this website you can now read summaries of all the papers delivered at the conference earlier in May in Amsterdam of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies: http://www.worldrtd.net/conference/amsterdam … Final Exit Network’s most recent video is now available on YouTube. In […]
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