Assisted-Dying Blog

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reported 27 Feb 09: ATLANTA (AP) — Members of an assisted suicide ring say they’ve done nothing wrong and seem eager for a court battle over criminal charges they helped a Georgia man kill himself, while their supporters are using the case as a rallying cry for more debate about end-of-life issues. […]

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Times of London columnist Libby Purves made this pithy comment 2.20.09: ‘The Swiss have, in their bland and unemphatic way, driven a coach and horses through law, custom and ethical debate in post-Christian Britain. Since 1998 Dignitas, with its unique willingness to accept foreign “members”, has made it hard to hold the line against assisted […]

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Debbie Purdy, 45, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, wanted to know if her husband, the Cuban violinist Omar Puente, would be prosecuted if he helped her travel to die in a country where it is legal. Under British law, aiding and abetting suicide is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison. But […]

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The Manchester Evening News UK reported on 16 Feb 09: Coroner calls for ban on suicide manual Exclusive: John Scheerhout and Stan Miller A CORONER has called for a ban a suicide manual used by a Manchester club boss to kill himself. Nigel Meadows has written to the Home Secretary expressing concern about the book. […]

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The controversy over the right to die of Eluana Englaro is really a battle over religious beliefs and secondarily about the law of Italy. This case is being used as a football in a struggle for moral power by the Vatican over the rules of life and death. All over the world, people nowadays want […]

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Following Australia’s censorship ban on anything to do with euthanasia or assisted suicide appearing on the internet, I guessed that it was only a matter of time before a similar clamp-down would be tried elsewhere. Britain now appears to be the next target of the extreme right wingers. Prime Minister Brown has also spoken out […]

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Take a look at this elegant web site by French choice-in-dying activist Jacqueline Jencquel, which is full — in two languages — of news, plus sharp pictures which load quickly. http://www.jacquelinejencquel.com —Derek Humphry 12/13/08

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There is no lawful medical assisted suicide in Sweden and Denmark, as some people seem to think, writes Derek Humphry.  It’s a common myth. Voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, by doctors only under strict guidelines, is available to dying residents in the Netherlands and Belgium, and soon also to be in Luxembourg.  Foreigners cannot use […]

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Although I must declare an interest in this publication as I am mentioned in it, this booklet exposes an unusual glimpse into the inner workings of the progressive, investigative side of the worldwide euthanasia movement…who’s behind it, what advances it has made, who drove it, and so on.   Extremely well written by Richard Cote, […]

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German historians are compiling a register of 9,000 mentally ill people killed by the Nazis as part of Hitler’s euthanasia policy. Berlin’s Freie University and Brandenburg’s memorial trust are leading the project. Hitler first outlined his Nazi euthanasia campaign, which would later be called Operation T4, in his book “Mein Kampf.” Believed to have claimed […]

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