Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dr. Kevorkian, Dutch euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Kevorkian, physician-assisted suicide, RTD Organizations, Switzerland on Aug 1st, 2021
On July 20, a 28-year-old man in the Netherlands was arrested for trafficking suicide powder. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, at least six suicides are linked to the man. The Justice Department suspects the drug was provided to hundreds of people. Research should show how many people actually took the drug and how many […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dr. Kevorkian, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Kevorkian, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Jul 27th, 2021
There is an interesting peer-reviewed research published in OMEGA-Journal = of Death and Dying. Click here (https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211033368) = to read the article – “Why People Think They Might Hasten Their Death When= Faced with Irremediable Health Conditions Compared to Why They Actually Do= So.” (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00302228211033368) This is an extract: Since Derek Humphry’s best-selling book in […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Books, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dr. Kevorkian, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Kevorkian, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, Self-Deliverance, Switzerland on Jul 23rd, 2021
The Los Angeles Review of Books examined Katie Englehart’s new book “THE INEVITABLE” Here is an extract; the entire review is worth reading The Dignified Exit July 23, 2021 • By Elena Saavedra Buckle Opponents of assisted death have long argued that the practice will fall down a slippery slope of exploitation. Poor […]
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June 3 is the tenth anniversary of the death of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, still a household name to many. At their request he helped130 people to die. Beginning in June 1990, Kevorkian helped Alzheimer’s patient and Hemlock Society member Janet Adkins to die, using his Mercitron machine. Kevorkian, despite three trials ending in acquittals, continued […]
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