Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 7th, 2009
Some of us in America are fascinated by the British reaction to Dr. Philip Nitschke’s current tour of Britain. I write as a citizen of the UK and USA and a ‘right to die’ watcher for 30 years. The British public is fed up with its government’s refusal to modify the laws on assisted suicide. […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 1st, 2009
There is a significant and fascinating article in the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ of 1 May which is a lengthy article that begins… A year ago, when a doctor finally diagnosed the brain disease that had been making it harder for her to walk without falling, Rona Zelniker told her son and daughter that she was going […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on Apr 22nd, 2009
Two-thirds of nurses [in the UK] support the legalisation of assisted suicide, results of an Independent Nurse survey reveal. Of 108 nurses who responded to the survey, 64 per cent said they thought assisted suicide should be legalised. In addition, 67 per cent said that they thought that clinicians should be able to assist terminally […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Blogroll, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 23rd, 2009
Liberty and Death A manifesto concerning an individual’s right to choose to die In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty –- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing. Whereas […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 18th, 2009
Ted Goodwin, one of the four persons charged by Georgia police with assisting a suicide, told the Associated Press on 03.17.09: “We believe that it is the right of every mentally competent adult to determine whether he or she is suffering,” Goodwin said. “We do not believe this should be left to the physicians, church […]
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Luxembourg has become the third European Union country, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to decriminalise voluntary euthanasia. Terminally ill people will be able to have their lives ended after receiving the approval of two doctors and a panel of experts. Last year, Luxembourg became embroiled in a constitutional crisis when Grand Duke Henri refused to […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 11th, 2009
A Scottish woman starved and dehydrated herself to death to get around the law which bans euthanasia. The 75-year old with motor neurone disease received advice from a campaign group which supports terminally ill patients who want to end their lives. It has now reignited the debate on assisted suicide. Dr Libby Wilson, medical adviser […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Schiavo, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2009
“I am extremely concerned by the arrest of these people who are dedicated to supporting people’s right to a dignified death,†said Sonja Eggerickx, president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU). “I met with one of the arrested men, Ted Goodwin, at the IHEU World Humanist Congress in Washington, DC, last summer. He […]
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A British couple who were both suffering from terminal cancer have died at a voluntary euthanasia clinic in Switzerland. Peter and Penelope Duff, from Bath, ended their lives at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich last Friday. Their daughter Helena Conibear said her father, who was 80, and her mother, who was 70, had “passed away […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 4th, 2009
Defense fund for the GEORGia FOUR accused of assisting a suicide can be seen at www.finalexitlibertyfund.org
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