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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COPY OF LETTER TO THE EDITOR “The Washington Times” from Derek Humphry Columnist Nat Hentoff should ruminate on Shakespeare having King Henry V saying on the eve of Agincourt: “Old men forget,” for in his June 12 article “The devaluing of human life” Nat has got his dates all mixed up with regard to me. […]
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Voluntary euthanasia laws could soon be back up for debate in the South Australian Parliament. Independent MP Bob Such intends to introduce a private member’s bill that would allow someone with chronic pain the right to end their life. Mr Such says he is confident the majority of South Australians would welcome the law but […]
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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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Read an excellent and informational article about assisted suicide for the dying in the June 8 issue of Westword – an alternative newspaper out of Denver, Colorado. Further literature on euthanasia, right-to-die, assisted suicide at the ERGO bookstore.
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Voluntary euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke says he will return to New Zealand to conduct workshops now that plans to prosecute him have been dropped. In February, the New Zealand Ministry of Health investigated a complaint made by the Medical Council that Dr Nitschke was practising medicine without a licence. The Ministry now says there is […]
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Laws governing assisted suicide in Switzerland are sufficient, according to the cabinet, which said on Wednesday it had no plans to tighten the rules. (According to Swissinfo.com) Pressure has been mounting for the practice to be more tightly controlled, partly because Switzerland has gained a reputation for “death tourism”. Announcing the decision on Wednesday, Justice […]
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Some years ago I was sitting in the High Court of Appeals in London listening to a euthanasia case. Part of the evidence was that the man had paid a call at the offices of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, in Chelsea. All he got there was information, certainly not assisted death. The defendant’s lawyer argued […]
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Dr Jack Kevorkian is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder after being convicted of giving a fatal injection of drugs in 1998. He is eligible for parole in 2007. Kevorkian’s lawyer Mayer Morganroth said he filed an application with the Michigan Parole Board and Gov. Jennifer Granholm seeking a pardon, parole or […]
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As he sits in jail, Dr Jack Kevorkian may have had a change of heart — not about his dedication to the “death with dignity” movement, but on how he went about promoting it. Specifically, his lawyer suggests, he questions the more than 100 suicides he said he assisted throughout the 1990s. One assisted suicide […]
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