Weblog of Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit, serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults for 30 years
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Nov 30th, 2007
Shirley Carroll O’Connor, who was the very first person to join the Hemlock Society when it was formed on 12 August 1980, has just celebrated her 90th birthday. She is still a volunteer worker for Compassion and Choices.
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Nov 25th, 2007
Last week a prominent Canadian television company showed a program on the Dignitas organization in Switzerland. As this station also reaches many viewers in the USA, it has aroused a lot of interest and inquiries, so we are repeating this informational message about Dignitas. PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE FOR THE TERMINALLY OR HOPELESSLY ILL, COMPETENT, ADULT PERSON […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Nov 20th, 2007
It might be wise, if a person is contemplating using the ‘helium hood method’ for self-deliverance from an unbearable terminal illness one day in the future, to purchase two tanks now. Helium is becoming in short supply, partly because of increased worldwide demand, and its more frequent use by industry. For example, I am told […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Nov 11th, 2007
Karen Stern’s Final Exit October 29, 2007, Kingman, Arizona By Richard N. Côté / dickcote at earthlink.net Karen Stern, a vivacious 53-year-old, guitar-playing singer and writer of loopy, infectiously funny songs, died on the morning of October 29, 2007, in a motel in Kingman, Arizona. She had informed the front desk clerk about 7:00 a.m. […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Nov 2nd, 2007
It has always been tacitly assumed in the Netherlands that old people and/or severely ill people could only expedite their own death with the assistance of a physician. (In 2002 the Dutch passed laws permitted voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.) Recently, however, psychiatrist Boudewijn Chabot defended his Ph.D. thesis “Auto-Euthanasia “ in which he calculates […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Oct 27th, 2007
George David Exoo was a free man Friday for the first time in four months. U.S. District Magistrate Judge Clarke VanDervort denied a request by the U.S. Attorney’s Office to extradite the former Beckley Unitarian minister to Ireland for his alleged role five years ago in assisting the suicide of a woman there. Exoo, 65, […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Blogroll, Books, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Oct 24th, 2007
What happened to the pioneering right-to-die group When Gerald Larue and Derek Humphry entered the Los Angeles Press Club on 12 August 1980 to announce to the world the formation of the Hemlock Society, there were many doubters that it could last. After all, it was the only organization in America currently saying that assisted […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Oct 1st, 2007
The Associated Press reported: Assisted suicide research criticized: professor replies By William McCall, The Associated Press, October 1, 2007 PORTLAND – Doctor-assisted suicide in Oregon and The Netherlands does not result in more deaths among certain groups of terminally ill patients such as the poor or senior citizens, according to a controversial new study. The […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Sep 28th, 2007
September 27, 2007 Dublin radio station 98FM wrote a new page in the history of Irish broadcasting. At 8:00 p.m., hosts Paul Connolly and Allison O’Reilly interviewed Derek Humphry, a distinguished journalist, founder of The Hemlock Society, and an international spokesman for the right-to-die movement. This episode of the call-in talk show, “The Inbox,” was […]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Sep 21st, 2007
Final Exit, Digital Edition 2007 (eBook PDF) The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society Revised 3rd edition in digital format, Updated July 2007 eBook PDF • 1MB • 214 pages ISBN 0-3853365-3-5 Price: $32.00 Brand NEW Digital Version of Final Exit, updated July 2007. […]
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