Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on May 23rd, 2007
Jack Kevorkian still supports euthanasia. In a telephone interview with Michigan TV station WJBK, Kevorkian vows to work toward having assisted suicide legalized. However, Kevorkian also says he won’t break any laws doing so. The retired pathologist was sent to prison for up to 25 years in 1999 after he was convicted of murdering a […]
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1. A political stalemate that has left most of New York’s population without critical decision-making powers in end-of-life situations. For years, to end this deplorable situation, the New York State Bar Association has been strongly advocating for a Family Health Care Decisions Act. More than 75 percent of New Yorkers do not have a health […]
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The number of euthanasia cases in the Netherlands has dropped over the past few years, though the number of terminal patients receiving palliative sedation has increased. This has emerged from an evaluation of euthanasia legislation presented to State secretary for public health Jet Bussemaker. 2,300 people had their lives terminated by euthanasia in 2005, more […]
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A total of 76 Britons with terminal illnesses have ended their lives at the Dignitas Clinic in Zurich since it was founded in 1999. Between 2003 and 2006, an average of 14 people a year made the trip, (The Independent reported), while 34 have done so since January 2006. “It is appalling that the current […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on May 4th, 2007
The paperback ‘how-to’ book ‘Final Exit’ received both an honor and a blow during April 2007. First, the editors and book critics of the American national newspaper, USA TODAY, selected Derek Humphry’s book as one of the 25 most memorable books of the last quarter century.* Then Google Adwords, the search engine giant’s advertising unit, […]
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According to a study by INED (National Institute for Demographic Studies), between a quarter and a half of deaths in Europe will have followed a medical intervention, which could have shortened life. Carried out in Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland in 2001/2 this study shows that these deaths, all of which concerned only the […]
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EUTHANASIA LAW UNDER DISCUSSION [in Russia]: The Federation Council has been preparing legislation that would legalize euthanasia in Russia, according to information received. If passed, the new law would allow people to request assisted suicide if sanctioned by a commission of doctors, lawyers and representatives from the prosecutor’s office. For now only patients’ rights organizations […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 15th, 2007
The American national newspaper, USA Today, carried the following article on 14 April 2007:- 25 Memorable Books USA Today 25 Memorable Books *25 Books that leave a legacy* Books tell a story about our reading preferences, certainly, but also about what’s happening in our world. USA TODAY’s book editors and critics chose 25 titles that […]
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Many adults in Brazil are opposed to euthanasia, according to a poll by Datafolha published in Folha de Sao Paulo. 57 per cent of respondents are against allowing the intentional death of another person in the event of an incurable disease. Approximately 80 per cent of Brazilians are baptized Roman Catholics. Last year, Brazil’s Federal […]
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Mexico’s Senate has began discussing the legalization of right to die, adding to a spate of liberal moves in the country that includes the sanctioning of gay civil unions and abortion. The bill’s sponsor said it would permit the terminally ill to go off medical treatment and end prosecution of doctors who follow patients’ wishes […]
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