Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Death With Dignity Act, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Opinion Pieces, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Dec 8th, 2021
Katie Engelhart’s new book “The Inevitable” was discussed on the radio recently. This is an extract: BROOKE GLADSTONE This is On the Media on WNYC Radio New on WNYC Radio New York on 3 December 2021: BROOKE GLADSTONE What do you think about books like ‘Final Exit: The of Self Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for […]
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Talk about odd distribution of vaccines to combat the pandemic! All my family in England (regardless of age) have received both their shots. My family in France — no signs of shots coming at all. I have received one shot (Moderna) this week on account of being over 80 in Oregon, USA.
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The significance of obituaries I’m a daily scanner of the obituaries in the four newspapers that I read in USA and UK (all now online, unfortunately.) Why this obsession? True, at 90 I’m on the cusp of life and death myself, yet the instinct to study the lives of others recently deceased goes longer and […]
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Posted in death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Good Death, Living Will, Opinion Pieces, Pandemic, right to die, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 7th, 2020
Here is a document about CHOICES in the event of severe novel coronavirus illness. Think it over carefully. It is not legally enforceable, but might be a useful guide to hospital staffs. April 2020 My Choices If I Become Sick in the COVID Pandemic Choose only one in each group of three. Location MEDICAL FACILITY: […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Opinion Pieces, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 3rd, 2020
Many of us who support the right to choose at life’s end will sympathize with this letter to the editor of the New York Times from Final Exit Network published on April 2, 2020. To the Editor: “I Love the World, but I Cannot Stay,” by Mary Pipher (Sunday Review, March 8), captures a sentiment […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Elder suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Good Death, Jean's Way, Opinion Pieces, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 25th, 2019
Do you want to leave after 90 years? Interesting argument developing in the UK (See report below.) This has also been a debate in the Netherlands. …….. On April 16 Michael Irwin gave a talk at the Cornerstone Centre, in Brighton and Hove, a city on the south coast of the UK, on – ‘When […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Opinion Pieces, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 31st, 2019
By Derek Humphry What’s in a word? Is saying ‘suicide’ as in ‘assisted suicide’ preferable, or is it better to use an euphemism like ‘assisted dying’? From the start in l980 we at the Hemlock Society always bluntly called the medical helping to die procedures ‘physician-assisted suicide’ and, when carried out alone, ‘self-deliverance’. We stressed […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Canada assisted dying laws, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Opinion Pieces, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on Nov 4th, 2018
It’s been 24 years since Oregon citizens passed the Death With Dignity Act and ten years since Washington state passed a similar law providing medical assisted dying under tight guidelines. Altogether, seven US states now have an Oregon-type law. The latest, Hawaii, takes effect next year. That’s a big step forward and important help to […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Brittany Maynard, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Opinion Pieces, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News on Jun 7th, 2018
This is surely a sign of changing times….. Out of 9,200 essays submitted for the New York Times 2018 Student Editorial Contest, an essay on physician-assisted suicide in America was a runner-up. You can read it at this site: A Peaceful Passing by Elina Niyazov, age 19 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/learning/runners-up-from-our-fifth-annual-student-editorial-contest.html
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Opinion Pieces, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on Nov 28th, 2017
The Swiss group DIGNITAS has survived many controversial battles, now takes it fight for choices in dying further abroad. EDITORIAL NOVEMBER 2017 newsletter of DIGNITAS, Switzerland: Freedom of choice in one’s life and at life’s end is a human right. In 1998, the non-profit association DIGNITAS – To live with dignity – To die with […]
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