Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Opinion Pieces, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News on Apr 7th, 2007
ONE in five people will die a “shameful death” alone, ravaged by dementia and without dignity, new British research claims. A book by sociology professor Allan Kellehear, A Social History Of Dying, argues this kind of death would be considered “shameful†by previous generations. In a bleak portrait of death in the 21st century, the […]
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A NEW WAY TO SECURE THE RIGHT TO DIE: LAWS AGAINST CAUSING PREMATURE DEATH SYNOPSIS: Most recent attempts to secure the right to die have focused on adding provisions to the health-care sections of our laws so that physicians could prescribe life-ending drugs to be taken by the patient when he or she chooses to […]
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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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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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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, Opinion Pieces, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2006
What do you call death and an assisted death? By Derek Humphry Recent controversy in Oregon about the best term to describe how a doctor helps a terminally ill person to die under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act (1994) set me thinking about all the terms we use to describe ways of dying and […]
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For those interested in reading about the subject of the right to choose to die when at life’s end, these sites offer some thought-provoking information 1. Eopinons 2. assistedsuicide.org
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Mercy Killing, Opinion Pieces, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Oct 9th, 2006
Books on euthanasia received in 2006 at the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO) in author alphabetical order: Guide to a Humane Self-Chosen Death by Dr. Pieter Admiraal et al. WOZZ Foundation, Delft, The Netherlands. ISBN 9078581018. 112 pages. Paperback. Euros 25. Sold only to physicians, pharmacists and in bulk to right-to-die societies. www.wozz.nl Unplugged: […]
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The arguments of the merits and de-merits of the words ‘assisted suicide’ and ‘suicide’ have been going on in the right-to-die movement for 30 years. They don’ t trouble me, but as a writer, in order to vary my style, I also use alternatives, such as ‘self-deliverance’, ‘hastened death’, ‘self-determination’. But none of us can […]
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Many people, like me, find it macabre that the execution of murderers is done with the use of lethal drugs, but this is a taboo, even illegal, when a dying person asks for assisted suicide (euthanasia). The only exception in America is Oregon. The latest example is Senator Brownback’s Assisted Suicide Prevention Act, just introduced […]
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A NEW ESSAY BY DEREK HUMPHRY Why assisted suicide for the mentally troubled is so problematic By the author of ‘Final Exit’
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