Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 31st, 2007
By Derek Humphry The release of Dr Jack Kevorkian is welcome news. He has suffered the eight years of imprisonment with calm and fortitude and deserves a peaceful retirement. But the thought he might have any influence on further developments does not make any sense. And while we are currently among the media circus surrounding […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on May 24th, 2007
Dr Jack Kevorkian free at last (on June 1, 2007) The Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO) heartily welcomes the release from prison on parole of Dr. Jack Kevorkian after serving eight years of a 10-25 years sentence in Michigan, USA. We hope that he can enjoy a well-deserved retirement — he is 79 — […]
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A total of 76 Britons with terminal illnesses have ended their lives at the Dignitas Clinic in Zurich since it was founded in 1999. Between 2003 and 2006, an average of 14 people a year made the trip, (The Independent reported), while 34 have done so since January 2006. “It is appalling that the current […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2007
On March 29, the upper chamber (Senate) of the Congress of Colombia held a “public hearing” on the proposed law that would fully legalize euthanasia in Colombia, following the Constitutional Court sentence of 1997. Senator Luis Fernando Velasco, chairman of the reporting committee on the law project, presided. Representatives of the Catholic Church, the Anglican […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 9th, 2007
The Worldwide Quest For The Peaceful Pill For many years there has been an urban myth that there exists a little red pill which, when swallowed, brings instant death, thus wonderfully relieving the sufferer from further pain. I have had requests for it scores of times from folk who genuinely believed such a fatal capsule […]
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A 15-year-old student named Zoe Cleland, who has long believed that physician-assisted suicide should be made legal in Canada, had the idea of starting an online petition. She asked if the website of the Right to Die Society (www.righttodie.ca) could be used to point people to it, and of course we said Yes. A red […]
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From the 2006 annual report of Compassion and Choices of Oregon:- 2006 Summary of deceased clients “Compassion and Choices of Oregon continued its role as the steward of Oregon’s unique aid-in-dying law. We served more than 140 clients during the year, 117 of whom died peacefully and humanely in great part because of our volunteers’ […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 20th, 2007
Woman’s voluntary death relaunches euthanasia debate in Spain Granada, Spain – For more than two decades, Inmaculada Echevarria had wanted to die. The 51-year-old Spanish woman had suffered for 40 years from a muscular dystrophy which gradually deprived her of all autonomy. The disease forced her to give her son up for adoption after birth, […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Mar 4th, 2007
EIGHT out of 10 Australians believe the terminally ill should have a right to choose a medically assisted death, according to a new poll out today. The Newspoll research, conducted in February, found 80 per cent of adults surveyed supported the terminally ill’s right to voluntary euthanasia. Just 14 per cent were opposed and 6 […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Feb 20th, 2007
Doctors no longer help terminally ill patients to enjoy a peaceful death because of the Harold Shipman case, according to a leading consultant. Speaking in Glasgow, Simon Kenwright, a semi-retired consultant gastroenteologist from East Kent hospital, said fears of prosecution are affecting patient treatment. In a lecture to 100 members of Friends at the end […]
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