PUBLISHER’S ANNOUNCEMENT: Those interested in right-to-die issues might want to check out “How We Die in America,” an article by William Colby, attorney in the landmark Nancy Cruzan right-to-die case: http://www.authorviews.com/authors/colby/obd.htm The article has some interesting revelations about the contrast between how we *think* we’re going to die and how we’re actually likely to check […]
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Gallup’s annual survey on Values and Beliefs, conducted May 8-11, 2006, finds that the vast majority of Americans continue to support “right-to-die” laws for terminally ill patients, whether that involves a doctor ending a patient’s life by some painless means, or a doctor assisting a terminally ill patient to commit suicide. An analysis of Gallup […]
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Protest song about the treatment of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and assisted suicide. The attached song came to me in the middle of the night for no good reason that I can understand – so I’m just passing it along. It can be heard for free at the following link: http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artistindex.asp?artistID=31576 and select ‘Ode to Kevorkian’ […]
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Greetings from Washington DC! We are going to present a new play about euthanasia which we think you and your constituencies might be interested. I wonder if there are any members/ supporters of your organization who live in the DC area. If so, we would like to ask for your kind support in helping us […]
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According to a national survey done by the Pew Research Center, almost everybody in America knows of the existence of “Living Wills” — particularly since the Terri Schiavo case in Florida in March of last year. But (Pew found) only 29 percent of adults had actually signed an Advance Directive for health care (Living Will, […]
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In the 15 months it has been open, the ERGO internet bookstore has received more than three hundred thousand visitors (301,501), and 1,410 customers from around the world have purchased books or videos about choices in dying.
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There is a David Levine cartoon from a back issue of the at New York Review of Books
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To access a useful list of organizations in North America which handle right to die issues, visit this web site belonging to Compassion in Dying of Oregon which is the steward of that state’s physician-assisted suicide law. ——- Derek Humphry, Oregon, USA
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Posted in Publications/InternetMedia on Feb 25th, 2006
The archives for blog posts from Jan 2005 to Jan 2006 are still available on the previous blog website located at http://self-deliverance.blogspot.com. They will be kept on that blogsite until we are able to migrate those posts over to this new blog site.
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NOVEMBER OF THE SOUL There is a new book just out about the history and complexity of suicide which contains, from pages 359 to 452, extensive reportage and commentary on the right-to-die issue Part 5 of this large book (paperback) deals with, for instance: The Hemlock Society Caring Friends Compassion in Dying Final Exit Network […]
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