Assisted-Dying Blog

My comment re the doctor and two nurses charged with murder in New Orleans after the hurricane: It is my opinion that sometimes, in the harsh, real world in which we can find ourselves, so-called mercy killing is justifiable. Sometimes. It seems to me that this New Orleans hospital medical team was placed in a […]

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Neal Nicol writes:- My biography of Dr. Jack Kevorkian is finally available. Books were delivered to bookstores in the US and Canada on July 5th, and are available through Barnes & Noble. Also, U of Wisconsin Press is offering a special discount on the book if you order direct from them. Jack is 78, in […]

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New books recently received at ERGO: UNPLUGGED: Reclaiming our right to die in America. By William H Colby, attorney. ISBN 9780814408827. Hardcover. AMACOM, NY. $24.95 US. BETWEEN THE DYING AND THE DEAD: Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s life and the battle to legalize euthanasia. by Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie. ISBN 0299217108. Hardcover. Terrace Books, Madison, Wisconsin. […]

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The Los Angeles Times printed the following thoughtful article on friends helping each other to die. It has also been syndicated to many other newspapers. At death’s window – June 25, 2006 By Anne Lamott / Anne Lamott is a novelist and essayist. Her latest book is “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith,” recently released […]

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By telephone from his prison in Michigan, Dr. Jack Kevorkian told the Los Angeles Times:- Do you have any regrets about what you did? Yes, I should’ve worked for a change in the law instead. You’ve said recently that if you are released, you will no longer break the law. Does that mean that you’ve […]

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California lawmakers narrowly rejected a bill on Tuesday that would have allowed the terminally ill to enlist doctors to help them commit suicide. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 3-2 to block the measure. Committee Chairman Sen. Joe Dunn, a Democrat from Santa Ana, California, cast the deciding vote, siding with two Republicans. Dunn said he […]

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EXIT, le droit de mourir (the right to die) was announced the winner of the 5th EBU Golden Link Award by Jean Réveillon, Secretary General of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), during the Sunny Side of the Doc in Marseilles, France last week. As the leading co-production partner, the Swiss French-speaking channel TSR, represented by […]

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I have just read and signed the petition: “Release Dr. Jack Kevorkian” Please take a moment to read about this important issue, and join me in signing the petition. It takes just 30 seconds, but can truly make a difference. We are trying to reach 1,000 signatures – please sign here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/761877453 Once you have […]

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Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s request to have his second-degree murder sentence commuted has been turned down, a state prisons spokesman said. Kevorkian claims he has less than a year to live. For the fourth consecutive year, the Michigan parole board turned down the 78-year-old assisted-suicide advocate’s request, said a Corrections Department spokesman. Because the parole board […]

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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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