Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit Network, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, RTD News, Switzerland on Jul 1st, 2023
Compassion and Choices reports that thanks to the persistence of Dr. Chuck Miller and many advocates in Hawai’i, Gov. Josh Green, on June 6, signed into law HB 650, a bill that improves the Our Care, Our Choice Act in 3 ways: 1) It reduces the mandatory waiting period from 20 to 5 days, 2) […]
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Advance Healthcare Directive (AHCD). A California AHCD can be filled out online. The form and instructions are available on this link: ** California AHCD (https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/consumers/ProbateCodeAdvancedHealthCareDirectiveForm-fillable.pdf) After completing the form, print, sign, and date it at the end. The form must also be signed by two qualified witnesses or a notary public. Give a copy of […]
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As part of the Dutch system of transparency in its Termination of Life upon Request law, this week the Health Minister provided a report to the Dutch Parliament outlining the backlog which the increase in requests for euthanasia from mental health patients has created. While Dutch psychiatrists are supportive of the right of those suffering […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Oregon law, Politics/Law, right to die, Switzerland on Nov 20th, 2021
A fascinating article in the Guardian 21 Nov. about a terminally ill UK person traveling to Switzerland to get a medically assisted death contains this bleak outlook for law reform in England: Assisted death is legal in Switzerland, as well as in several other countries including Canada, the Netherlands and Belgium. (plus 10 USA states). […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on May 19th, 2021
The Final Exit Network filed a lawsuit in federal court 05/18/2021 against the sheriff and the chief prosecutor of Anoka County, Minnesota for threatening to file criminal charges against the organization. The action named Sheriff James Stuart and County Attorney Tony Palumbo as defendants in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. It […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, Switzerland on Apr 17th, 2021
Scotland is edging towards enacting legislation that will give dying patients the right to end their lives. The SNP has pledged, if re-elected, to set up a citizen’s assembly representing a cross-section of society to look at legalizing assisted dying. The Scottish Greens, who may form a coalition government with the SNP after May’s election, […]
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Posted in 'Last Wish', Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Living Will, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Switzerland on Apr 1st, 2021
Dr Henry Marsh: The law insists that I suffer until the end Dr Henry Marsh Friday April 02 2021 After many decades of working with patients facing death, a recent diagnosis of advanced cancer means that I now face death myself — possibly within a year, perhaps up to five years or more if I […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Canada assisted dying laws, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Nembutal, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Switzerland on Apr 1st, 2021
March was a month of legislative action: Spain legalized euthanasia, Canada finally signed Bill C-7 into law and the Tasmanian VAD Bill passed the final vote in the Lower House. Unfortunately, the Portugese Constitutional Court overturned the in January approved euthanasia bill. However, the decision left open the option to euthanasia provided that the legislation […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Azheimer's, Canada assisted dying laws, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law on Mar 18th, 2021
Canada has expanded the scope of its laws on medically assisted death to include people whose demise is not foreseeable and opened the door for the mentally ill to have the procedure. The law, given royal assent on Wednesday, revamps assisted death in Canada and comes as assisted suicide is legalised in Spain, fulfilling a […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Dementia, Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, Oregon law, Philip Nitschke MD, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Switzerland on Mar 12th, 2021
Book Notice THE INEVITABLE: Dispatches on the Right to Die By Katie Engelhart St. Martin’s Press 3/2021 I’ve read every non-academic book on the right to die in the last 40 years and the scope of this new one comes as a pleasant change: in-depth, international, doctor-probing, and examining certain people who want accelerated death […]
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