Mexico’s Senate has began discussing the legalization of right to die, adding to a spate of liberal moves in the country that includes the sanctioning of gay civil unions and abortion. The bill’s sponsor said it would permit the terminally ill to go off medical treatment and end prosecution of doctors who follow patients’ wishes […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 9th, 2007
The Worldwide Quest For The Peaceful Pill For many years there has been an urban myth that there exists a little red pill which, when swallowed, brings instant death, thus wonderfully relieving the sufferer from further pain. I have had requests for it scores of times from folk who genuinely believed such a fatal capsule […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 6th, 2007
USA Today, Thu, 05 Apr 2007 3:08 PM PDT Excerpt from ‘Final Exit’ http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/excerpts/2007-04-05-final-exit_N.htm?csp=34 Author: Derek Humphry
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on Mar 31st, 2007
The Daily Herald in Utah posed this question: Should the state allow an inmate to waive his death sentence appeals because he is chronically ill and wants to end his misery, as in assisted suicide? U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell was confronted with that question when Ronnie Lee Gardner said he is suffering too much […]
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Taking assisted suicide out of the criminal code in the Netherlands has created an “avalanche” of strict legal controls on how the Dutch can end their own lives with medical help, says a leading legal expert on euthanasia in Europe. Dutch doctors who carry out assisted suicide face a deluge of official reviews and investigations […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Mar 4th, 2007
EIGHT out of 10 Australians believe the terminally ill should have a right to choose a medically assisted death, according to a new poll out today. The Newspoll research, conducted in February, found 80 per cent of adults surveyed supported the terminally ill’s right to voluntary euthanasia. Just 14 per cent were opposed and 6 […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Feb 20th, 2007
Doctors no longer help terminally ill patients to enjoy a peaceful death because of the Harold Shipman case, according to a leading consultant. Speaking in Glasgow, Simon Kenwright, a semi-retired consultant gastroenteologist from East Kent hospital, said fears of prosecution are affecting patient treatment. In a lecture to 100 members of Friends at the end […]
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California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez has announced that he will back a bill to allow terminally ill people to hasten their deaths with lethal prescriptions. Similar bills have failed in the last two years, but supporters say Nuñez, a Los Angeles Democrat, could make the difference. “We are more hopeful now than ever that we […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 14th, 2007
A CAUTIONARY NOTE TO OUR MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS FROM ERGO (Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization) “The Peaceful Pill Handbook” By Dr. Philip Nitschke & Dr. Fiona Stewart To avoid any possible misunderstanding about this new book, our supporters should note that there is no such single unit as a ‘peaceful pill’ described in the book, […]
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In the 25 months since it opened, more than half a million people have visited ERGO’s online bookstore (505,919 to be exact.) 2,439 have purchased books, ebooks, DVDs and VHS videos. Of those, 1,117 bought ‘Final Exit’ 3rd edition, paperback. Amazon.com Sales Rank of ‘Final Exit’ today: #14,364 in Books (out of 2 million volumes […]
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