Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jun 5th, 2012
WORTH A LOOK Two new videos on YouTube are concerned with the background to the US movement for the right to choose to die when at life’s end. They are short and to the point. Here are the links: and
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 14th, 2012
PRESS RELEASE from the Final Exit Network May 14, 2012 MINNESOTA PROSECUTOR OBTAINS GRAND JURY INDICTMENT OF FINAL EXIT NETWORK AND FOUR OF ITS VOLUNTEERS HASTINGS, Minnesota — James Backstrom, the Dakota County prosecutor, called a press conference to deny that he has initiated a war on the right-to-die movement by securing a 17-count indictment […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 8th, 2012
PRESS RELEASE May 7, 2012 INDICTMENT OF FINAL EXIT NETWORK VOLUNTEERS IS EXPECTED THIS WEEK IN HASTINGS, MINNESOTA HASTINGS, Minnesota — James C. Backstrom, the prosecutor in this suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul, is launching an attack on the right-to-die movement. Backstrom has publicly revealed plans to secure grand jury indictments this Friday (May 11, 2012) […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Hemlock, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Mar 12th, 2012
By Derek Humphry If there is anybody in the right-to-die movement who made a radical difference it was Dr. Peter Goodwin, who brought his life to an end on 11 March 2012 in the presence of his family, using the law he helped to pass. Aged 83, he suffered from an incurable brain illness. Up […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 16th, 2012
“How to die in Oregon” a video by Peter Richardson The DVD of this prize-winning documentary is now available to order OUTSIDE the US and Canada. Here’s the link to order: http://www.filmbaby.com/films/5819 ==== To order WITHIN the USA and Canada, go to the DVD distributor’s webpage: http://bit.ly/sIn4JK ===== NOTE: This is not an ERGO project, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 6th, 2012
Press release GEORGIA HIGH COURT EXONERATES FINAL EXIT NETWORK’S VOLUNTEERS ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb. 6, 2012 — The Supreme Court of Georgia today struck down the state’s assisted-suicide law, abruptly terminating the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s prosecution of four Final Exit Network right-to-die activists. The state high court agreed with the 3,000-member, national not-for-profit organization’s argument […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, GLADD, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jan 19th, 2012
Re: United States v. Sharlotte Hydorn Victims Rights and Restitution Act If you are one of those persons who recently received a ‘victim letter’ from the US Department of Justice in connection with Ms Sharlotte Hydorn, of California, who used to supply helium hood kits upon request, I suggest that you respond to it this […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, GLADD, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Dec 3rd, 2011
A 91-year-old Californian woman has pleaded guilty to failing to file federal tax returns for her company that made and sold helium hood kits. They were intended for the terminally ill to bring their lives to a speedy end if they wished. Sharlotte Hydorn admitted paying no tax on $66,717 (£42,775) of income in 2010. […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Nov 8th, 2011
Lawyers for the Final Exit Network argued before the state Supreme Court on Monday that Georgia’s assisted suicide law is “irrational” because it allows someone to assist in a suicide but not to publicly advertise or offer that help, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. But Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit District Attorney Penny Penn argued that the law […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Nov 6th, 2011
QUIETLY, GEORGIA BECOMES FOURTH STATE TO LEGALIZE PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE By Robert Rivas, General Counsel, Final Exit Network, Tallahassee, Florida ATLANTA, Georgia — Without fanfare, Georgia has become the fourth state in the United States to legalize physician-assisted suicide, the attorney general of Georgia disclosed in a brief before the Supreme Court of Georgia. Until now, […]
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