Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, GLADD, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on Aug 7th, 2014
Following raids by law enforcement in US and Canada on manufacturers, nobody now supplies the ready-made helium hood kit for self-deliverance from a terminal illness. (GLADD is gone.) But there is now a substitute in my pamphlet “How to make your own helium hood kit” which can be downloaded as an illustrated pdf at this […]
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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, 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, 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, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jan 15th, 2014
In New Mexico on January 13, 2014, a trial-court-level judge rendered a decision that a physician could not be prosecuted on a charge of assisting in a suicide because the right of a terminally ill patient to his or her doctor’s assistance in death is a fundamental right with which the state cannot interfere. But […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, GLADD, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Dec 13th, 2013
From Faye Girsh: Sharlotte Hydorn died yesterday in her San Diego home, with hospice care, at age 94. Though I don’t know all the details, I wanted to pay her this tribute since she did so much to give people around the world the comfort and reassurance of a peaceful death by making and distributing […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, exit bag, Final Exit, Hemlock, Living Will, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Dec 6th, 2013
AN APPEAL This is the time of year – once only – when ERGO (Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization) asks its supporters if they can make a tax-deductible donation towards expenses. ERGO is an all-volunteer nonprofit group, operating since 1993 to provide quality information about issues of the right-to-choose-to-die. ERGO has no rented offices, but […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Dec 3rd, 2013
In the listing of the 100 most frequently challenged books from 1990–1999, according the American Library Association, this ultimate how-to book is 29th: Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance And Assisted Suicide for the Dying – By Derek Humphry Now in its 22nd year of publication, it still sells daily around the world. Third edition, […]
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