Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Living Will, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Jun 6th, 2014
In an historic 94 to 22 vote at the National Assembly of Quebec, Bill 52, An Act Respecting End of Life Care, passed into law at 4:14 pm on June 5, 2014. This is the first time that medical aid to die becomes an option for adult citizens of Quebec who are capable of giving […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Jun 5th, 2014
More than 100 people died in Washington last year after requesting and taking a lethal prescription through Washington’s Death with Dignity law, the state’s Department of Health reported 4 June 2014. Officials said that 173 people requested and received lethal doses of medication in 2013, a 43 percent increase from the year before. Of those […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on May 28th, 2014
Exit in Switzerland has added “suicide due to old age” to their statutes at an annual general meeting held recently, allowing people suffering from psychological or physical problems associated with old age the choice to end their life. Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland and technically even a healthy young person could use such services. […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Nembutal, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on May 23rd, 2014
Nembutal, the drug of choice for executing prisoners in many American states and for assisted suicide in Oregon and Washington state, has dried up because its European manufacturer, the Danish company Lundbeck, refuses to supply it for use in executions. This has had an unintended consequence: patients in Oregon who want physician-assisted suicide cannot get […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Mercy Killing, Mexico, Nembutal, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on Apr 10th, 2014
A QUALITY VIDEO DEBATING EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED DYING For over 20 years, Canadian citizens and courts have been engaged in a profound and divisive debate surrounding one of the most important moments in an individual’s life – the moment that it ends. In The Trouble with Dying, each side of the argument over the right […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2014
Press Release by the Final Exit Network 03.21.14 ST. PAUL, Minnesota – A Minnesota law that prohibits “advising, encouraging, or assisting” in a “suicide” is unconstitutional in violation of the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, the Supreme Court of Minnesota has ruled. In a 27-page opinion handed down on Wednesday, March 19, the […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, GLADD, Hemlock, Nembutal, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 24th, 2014
A 2014 appraisal of self-directed dying by Derek Humphry This September, as part of the world euthanasia conference in Chicago, we shall be making a fresh appraisal of non-doctor ways in which a terminal or hopelessly ill person can choose to end their life. This review will be by NuTech (New Technology in Self-Deliverance) in […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Living Will, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on Feb 12th, 2014
A judge has dismissed the assisted-suicide charge against Barbara Mancini, the 58-year-old Philadelphia nurse who was arrested last February after handing her 93-year-old terminally ill father a bottle of morphine. “A jury may not receive a case where it must rely on conjecture to reach a verdict,” Judge Jacqueline Russell said in her 47-page opinion. […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance on Feb 8th, 2014
Re today’s New York Times lead article “Assisted suicide now legal in 5 states” This article, while welcome, has two shortcomings in my view: It fails to point out that there are four groups in the USA campaigning (in different ways) for the right to choose how to die when at life’s end. True, Compassion […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, People in the News, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2014
Have a look at this short video about the German situation. Quite illuminating. A gutsy guy. Copy and paste in your browser: http://www.dw.de/the-question-of-euthanasia/av-17383986
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