Assisted-Dying Blog

Some have been asking whether the Australian ‘Peanut Project‘ (This blog 9 Sept 06) in trying to produce a home-made form of the barbiturate, pentobarbital, succeeded or not. As at this date (11 Oct 06) the Assay result has not been reported to us. Thus we do not know. I should point out that the […]

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Books on euthanasia received in 2006 at the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO) in author alphabetical order: Guide to a Humane Self-Chosen Death by Dr. Pieter Admiraal et al. WOZZ Foundation, Delft, The Netherlands. ISBN 9078581018. 112 pages. Paperback. Euros 25. Sold only to physicians, pharmacists and in bulk to right-to-die societies. www.wozz.nl Unplugged: […]

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It is interesting to note in the 2005 data issued by the Dutch Review Committees on hastened death that relatively few dying persons opt for the doctor to help them to die by oral ingestion of lethal drugs. Total number of deaths in Holland in 2005: 136,402 Number of reports of hastened deaths: 1,933 By […]

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Open letter to the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano From Piergiorgio Welby, Co-President of the Luca Coscioni Association September 21, 2006 Mr President, I am writing to you, and through you I am addressing also those citizens that will have the opportunity to listen to these words, to this cry of mine, which is […]

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Suicide pill presented at right-to-die meeting Canadian Press Published: Saturday, September 09, 2006 TORONTO — An Australian physician attending a global conference of right-to-die organizations intends to display what he says is the first do-it-yourself suicide pill. The pill was devised by a group of 20 Australians with degenerative and terminal illnesses. Group members, aged […]

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Beatriz Gomez, a person who defied all conventional taboos and founded a right-to-die organization in Colombia – a Catholic country and herself a Catholic — has died. She was 84, and passed away peacefully and suddenly at her home in Bogotá on August 15, 2006. Beatriz Kopp De Gomez single-handedly founded in 1979 the Fundacion […]

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The parliament of South Australia voted to ban this speech from appearing on the Internet. So here it is: Speech to SA Legislative Council by Sandra Kanck MLC. 30th Aug 2006-08-31 This is a simple motion that states the obvious. But in addressing this, I will be doing two things: a) placing on record some […]

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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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The World Federation of Right to Die Societies and Dying With Dignity welcome the world to Toronto! + ATTEND leading-edge presentations. + ESTABLISH & STRENGTHEN international networks. + LEARN about the successes and the battles – locally, nationally, and internationally. For details, go to http://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/worldconference06/homepage.html Euthanasia literature available at ERGO bookstore.

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