Assisted-Dying Blog

There are hopes for new promising PAS (Physician Assisted Suicide) developments in Germany. Dr. Roger Kusch, a former Senator in the Council of the City of Hamburg, Germany, with responsibilities for the Judiciary, announced last week that he has developed a new method of offering PAS help to terminally and chronically ill patients. The procedures […]

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I hear on good authority that the first steps towards having a citizens’ initiative vote in the state of WASHINGTON in November 2008 (at the time of the general and presidential election) have been taken towards a law permitting physician-assisted suicide for the dying. Concerned groups have just created a PAC called: “It’s My Decision […]

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“Final Exit’, Derek Humphry‘s bestselling ‘how-to’ paperback book on voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, can now also be downloaded directly to a home computer, permanently stored as a pdf. file, and also one copy printed out. The value of storing it as an Adobe pdf file is that the index guide will take the reader […]

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Australian euthanasia advocates have modified an ordinary coffee pot which they say will enable the terminally ill to concoct a banned suicide drug in their own kitchens. A group of elderly coffee-pot chemists say they were able to make the so-called “peaceful pill” Nembutal by cooking the base materials in a pressurised pot on a […]

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Compassion & Choices of Oregon’s client, Lovelle Svart, continues to blaze new trails as an articulate spokesperson for individual choice at the end of life. You will recall that Lovelle is a 62 year old unique lady who is dying from lung cancer. She was one of the intervenors in the US Supreme Court case […]

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Euthanasia activist, The Rev. George Exoo, moved to new jail pending final extradition hearing On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at 3:30 p.m., The Reverend George David Exoo was transported by federal marshals from the Southeastern Regional Jail, Beaver, West Virginia, to the South Central Regional Jail in Charleston, West Virginia, about a one-hour drive away. […]

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The Register-Herald newspaper in Beckley, West Virginia, reported on 18 Aug 07:- Exoo to remain jailed in extradition case By Matthew Hill, Register-Herald Reporter A U.S. District Court magistrate judge Friday refrained from issuing a ruling in what he described as a “simply extraordinary” extradition case — that of George Exoo, the former Beckley Unitarian […]

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Rev. George Exoo’s Extradition Verdict Delayed; Judge Deliberates Fine Points of International Extradition Law Beckley, West Virginia, USA Friday, August 17, 2007 After a lengthy presentation by lawyers prosecuting and defending The Reverend George David Exoo, a Unitarian minister, U.S. District Magistrate Judge R. Clarke VanDervort told all parties that it would take “at least […]

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The American supermarket tabloid the GLOBE in its 13 August issue, claims that the evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, who had advanced cancer, hastened her own end with heroin. The Globe’s lengthy story begins:- Tammy Faye Suicide Mystery – Did She Deliberately Overdose? THE tragic death of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner is shrouded in mystery — […]

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George Exoo is in prison in West Virginia awaiting a hearing on August 17 in which the Irish police are seeking to extradite him to Dublin to face trial for allegedly assisting the suicide of Rosemary Toole in 2002. He has been refused bail. George is having a very hard time in prison. He’s tiny, […]

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