DHARWAD, India: The recent demise of Vishwaaradhya Siddalingaiah Hiremath (77) who is said to have died of his own accord here, has triggered a debate as to whether self- willed-death could be considered as another form of euthanasia in order to circumvent legal hassles or a glorification of natural death. According to Hiremath’s family sources, […]
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At 11 am Pacific time, 24 December 2006, the paperback 3rd edition of ‘Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying” by Derek Humphry stood in the Amazon.com sales ranking at # 5,573 out of two million titles on sale through that source. It has been on sale since l991, when […]
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Italy’s Roman Catholic Church has denied the right to a religious funeral to a terminally ill man whose fight to die sparked a fierce euthanasia debate. Piergiorgio Welby died in Rome on Wednesday when a doctor turned off his life support machine at his request. Church officials said they could not grant the request of […]
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About Piergiorgio WELBY Piergiorgio WELBY, an Italian citizen suffering from muscular dystrophy, has taken upon himself to open the public debate on an individual’s right to choose the time of his/her death. He mustered his very last resources to defend this right which ought to be a prerogative of any person afflicted with an incurable […]
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The Nov/Dec 2006 issue of ‘Deliverance’, the newsletter of Exit International in Australia, leads off with the following report:- “First Peaceful Pill Assay Renders Results. “In October, the first chemical analysis results of the Peanut Project’s Peaceful Pill were obtained. The group had succeeded in producing significant quantities of barbiturates, the dominant component being Pentobarbital. […]
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Dr Jack Kevorkian will be paroled,says the Detroit News Convicted suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian will be paroled on June 1, state officials and his lawyer confirmed today. Mayer (Mike) Morganroth, Kevorkian’s Southfield attorney, said a three-member parole board panel unanimously granted Kevorkian parole after a hearing at Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater last Thursday. “He’s […]
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Open letter to the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano From Piergiorgio Welby, Co-President of the Luca Coscioni Association September 21, 2006 Mr President, I am writing to you, and through you I am addressing also those citizens that will have the opportunity to listen to these words, to this cry of mine, which is […]
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Beatriz Gomez, a person who defied all conventional taboos and founded a right-to-die organization in Colombia – a Catholic country and herself a Catholic — has died. She was 84, and passed away peacefully and suddenly at her home in Bogotá on August 15, 2006. Beatriz Kopp De Gomez single-handedly founded in 1979 the Fundacion […]
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The parliament of South Australia voted to ban this speech from appearing on the Internet. So here it is: Speech to SA Legislative Council by Sandra Kanck MLC. 30th Aug 2006-08-31 This is a simple motion that states the obvious. But in addressing this, I will be doing two things: a) placing on record some […]
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Neal Nicol writes:- My biography of Dr. Jack Kevorkian is finally available. Books were delivered to bookstores in the US and Canada on July 5th, and are available through Barnes & Noble. Also, U of Wisconsin Press is offering a special discount on the book if you order direct from them. Jack is 78, in […]
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