From the 2006 annual report of Compassion and Choices of Oregon:- 2006 Summary of deceased clients “Compassion and Choices of Oregon continued its role as the steward of Oregon’s unique aid-in-dying law. We served more than 140 clients during the year, 117 of whom died peacefully and humanely in great part because of our volunteers’ […]
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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, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 20th, 2007
Terminally-ill woman wants right to die peacefully Ningxia Hui, China “I love life. But I don’t want to go on living.” So writes 28-year-old Li Yan in her blog, which calls for the legalisation of euthanasia. Li, from Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, has been suffering from terminal cancer since she was just a […]
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Vermont (USA) Right-to-die Bill advances out of committee Friday Mar 15, 2007 The House Judiciary Committee voted 6-4 in favor of a bill that would allow patients with terminal conditions with a prognosis of less than six months to live to get a prescription to hasten their deaths. Another House committee also has recommended the […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 20th, 2007
Woman’s voluntary death relaunches euthanasia debate in Spain Granada, Spain – For more than two decades, Inmaculada Echevarria had wanted to die. The 51-year-old Spanish woman had suffered for 40 years from a muscular dystrophy which gradually deprived her of all autonomy. The disease forced her to give her son up for adoption after birth, […]
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Montpelier, Vt (USA) — The Vermont House Human Services Committee hearing continues on the recently reintroduced assisted-suicide bill (H.44). — Full text of House Bill 44 (H.44) introduced to The Vermont General Assembly is available at http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/bills/intro/H-044.HTM Subject: Health; end of life; patient-directed dying AN ACT RELATING TO PATIENT CHOICE AND CONTROL AT END OF […]
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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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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Opinion Pieces, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2007
Four out of five people in Britain believe the law should allow a doctor to end the life of a terminally ill patient who is in pain if they wish to die. In a finding confirming that British public opinion is at odds with the law, the British Social Attitudes Survey reveals strong support for […]
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There is also Ex-International Those attending the Toronto conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies last September were interested to hear from Dr Elke Baezner that there is yet another organisation in Switzerland devoted to helping the dying. This is Ex-International, which operates in much the same way as Dignitas but very […]
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