The Vermont House voted down an initiative Wednesday that would have given terminally ill patients the ability to hasten their deaths with the help of a physician. After nearly four hours of sometimes emotional debate on the issue, members of the House voted 82-63 against the proposal. “In my view, (the bill) goes too far […]
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Assemblymember Patty Berg’s Compassionate Choices Act, legislation that would allow terminally ill adults to accept life-ending drugs from a physician, won the support of California’s largest physicians organization this week. The California Association of Physician Groups, which represents thousands of doctors in more than 150 organized medical organizations, is one of the largest of its […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 20th, 2007
Terminally-ill woman wants right to die peacefully Ningxia Hui, China “I love life. But I don’t want to go on living.” So writes 28-year-old Li Yan in her blog, which calls for the legalisation of euthanasia. Li, from Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, has been suffering from terminal cancer since she was just a […]
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Vermont (USA) Right-to-die Bill advances out of committee Friday Mar 15, 2007 The House Judiciary Committee voted 6-4 in favor of a bill that would allow patients with terminal conditions with a prognosis of less than six months to live to get a prescription to hasten their deaths. Another House committee also has recommended the […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 20th, 2007
Woman’s voluntary death relaunches euthanasia debate in Spain Granada, Spain – For more than two decades, Inmaculada Echevarria had wanted to die. The 51-year-old Spanish woman had suffered for 40 years from a muscular dystrophy which gradually deprived her of all autonomy. The disease forced her to give her son up for adoption after birth, […]
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Montpelier, Vt (USA) — The Vermont House Human Services Committee hearing continues on the recently reintroduced assisted-suicide bill (H.44). — Full text of House Bill 44 (H.44) introduced to The Vermont General Assembly is available at http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/bills/intro/H-044.HTM Subject: Health; end of life; patient-directed dying AN ACT RELATING TO PATIENT CHOICE AND CONTROL AT END OF […]
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For those interested, besides the just released and previously mentioned 2006 report, other documents related to Oregon’s Death With Dignity (DWD) Act are available through the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) website (PDF reader not required to read most of the following documents):
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The State of Oregon’s “Death with Dignity” 2006 Annual Report is now up and available on the Oregon Department of Human Services website. The Oregon Death With Dignity (DWD) Act is Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide (PAS) law, supported at the polls by a majority of Oregon voters twice, once in 1994 and again in 1997. The […]
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The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) board of directors approved an updated “physician-assisted death” policy statement on Feb.14, 2007 “The AAHPM takes a position of ‘studied neutrality’ on the subject of whether PAD (physician-assisted death) should be legally regulated or prohibited, believing its members should instead continue to strive to find the […]
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Backers of a proposal to allow terminally ill Californians to hasten their deaths with lethal drugs pointed Thursday to legalized assisted suicide in Oregon, where a new report shows it is used sparingly. Forty-six Oregon residents, most of them cancer patients, used the law to end their lives in 2006, according to the Oregon Department […]
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