Suicide pill presented at right-to-die meeting Canadian Press Published: Saturday, September 09, 2006 TORONTO — An Australian physician attending a global conference of right-to-die organizations intends to display what he says is the first do-it-yourself suicide pill. The pill was devised by a group of 20 Australians with degenerative and terminal illnesses. Group members, aged […]
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Beatriz Gomez, a person who defied all conventional taboos and founded a right-to-die organization in Colombia – a Catholic country and herself a Catholic — has died. She was 84, and passed away peacefully and suddenly at her home in Bogotá on August 15, 2006. Beatriz Kopp De Gomez single-handedly founded in 1979 the Fundacion […]
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The parliament of South Australia voted to ban this speech from appearing on the Internet. So here it is: Speech to SA Legislative Council by Sandra Kanck MLC. 30th Aug 2006-08-31 This is a simple motion that states the obvious. But in addressing this, I will be doing two things: a) placing on record some […]
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The arguments of the merits and de-merits of the words ‘assisted suicide’ and ‘suicide’ have been going on in the right-to-die movement for 30 years. They don’ t trouble me, but as a writer, in order to vary my style, I also use alternatives, such as ‘self-deliverance’, ‘hastened death’, ‘self-determination’. But none of us can […]
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Many people, like me, find it macabre that the execution of murderers is done with the use of lethal drugs, but this is a taboo, even illegal, when a dying person asks for assisted suicide (euthanasia). The only exception in America is Oregon. The latest example is Senator Brownback’s Assisted Suicide Prevention Act, just introduced […]
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A NEW ESSAY BY DEREK HUMPHRY Why assisted suicide for the mentally troubled is so problematic By the author of ‘Final Exit’
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In the past five years or so, at least 50 persons have escorted relatives and friends from the UK to Zurich, Switzerland – to the Dignitas flat there, for an assisted suicide. Most of these individuals are known to the police, and many of them have been questioned by the police upon their return to […]
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U.S. Senator Sam Brownback has introduced into the US Congress the Assisted Suicide Prevention Act, which would prohibit doctors from prescribing federally-controlled substances for the purpose of physician-assisted suicide. “When the law permits killing as a medical ‘treatment,’ society’s moral guidelines are blurred, and killing could gain acceptance as a solution for the chronically ill […]
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The government of India says it has no plans to give legal status to euthanasia or “mercy killing” and would not consider any such application. “Government is not considering to give legal status to euthanasia. Till date law has not permitted it and application for the same cannot be entertained,” Minister of State for Law […]
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It is apparent that the debate over doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill is going to re-open in Canada. The Sun newspaper in Edmonton just reported as follows: A private member’s bill from Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde had thrust the controversial issue onto the parliamentary agenda, but the federal election temporarily swept it off […]
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