Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Sep 13th, 2007
I hear on good authority that the first steps towards having a citizens’ initiative vote in the state of WASHINGTON in November 2008 (at the time of the general and presidential election) have been taken towards a law permitting physician-assisted suicide for the dying. Concerned groups have just created a PAC called: “It’s My Decision […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Sep 6th, 2007
“Final Exit’, Derek Humphry‘s bestselling ‘how-to’ paperback book on voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, can now also be downloaded directly to a home computer, permanently stored as a pdf. file, and also one copy printed out. The value of storing it as an Adobe pdf file is that the index guide will take the reader […]
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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 Aug 30th, 2007
Australian euthanasia advocates have modified an ordinary coffee pot which they say will enable the terminally ill to concoct a banned suicide drug in their own kitchens. A group of elderly coffee-pot chemists say they were able to make the so-called “peaceful pill” Nembutal by cooking the base materials in a pressurised pot on a […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Aug 29th, 2007
Compassion & Choices of Oregon’s client, Lovelle Svart, continues to blaze new trails as an articulate spokesperson for individual choice at the end of life. You will recall that Lovelle is a 62 year old unique lady who is dying from lung cancer. She was one of the intervenors in the US Supreme Court case […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Aug 24th, 2007
Euthanasia activist, The Rev. George Exoo, moved to new jail pending final extradition hearing On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at 3:30 p.m., The Reverend George David Exoo was transported by federal marshals from the Southeastern Regional Jail, Beaver, West Virginia, to the South Central Regional Jail in Charleston, West Virginia, about a one-hour drive away. […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, 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 Aug 18th, 2007
The Register-Herald newspaper in Beckley, West Virginia, reported on 18 Aug 07:- Exoo to remain jailed in extradition case By Matthew Hill, Register-Herald Reporter A U.S. District Court magistrate judge Friday refrained from issuing a ruling in what he described as a “simply extraordinary†extradition case — that of George Exoo, the former Beckley Unitarian […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Aug 17th, 2007
Rev. George Exoo’s Extradition Verdict Delayed; Judge Deliberates Fine Points of International Extradition Law Beckley, West Virginia, USA Friday, August 17, 2007 After a lengthy presentation by lawyers prosecuting and defending The Reverend George David Exoo, a Unitarian minister, U.S. District Magistrate Judge R. Clarke VanDervort told all parties that it would take “at least […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Aug 9th, 2007
George Exoo is in prison in West Virginia awaiting a hearing on August 17 in which the Irish police are seeking to extradite him to Dublin to face trial for allegedly assisting the suicide of Rosemary Toole in 2002. He has been refused bail. George is having a very hard time in prison. He’s tiny, […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Aug 8th, 2007
DIGNITAS in Switzerland has not at all the same view as those who say that right-to-die-movement should not support suicide. If we admit what the Swiss Supreme Court has ruled on November 3, 2006, that the right to decide on moment and method of a person’s own death is a part of the Right to […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, 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 Jul 30th, 2007
On Friday, July 27, The Reverend George David Exoo was moved to the South Central Regional Jail in Charleston, West Virginia. The Republic of Ireland is seeking to have Reverend Exoo extradited for providing compassionate care and spiritual comfort while witnessing the January 25, 2002 suicide of Rosemary Toole in Dublin, Ireland. Exoo is a […]
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