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 Events/Conferences, RTD Organizations on May 20th, 2006
Details of the September joint conference in Toronto of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies and Dying with Dignity – Canada are available on the World Conference 2006 page. Further literature at the ERGO bookstore
Posted in Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations on May 2nd, 2006
According to a national survey done by the Pew Research Center, almost everybody in America knows of the existence of “Living Wills” — particularly since the Terri Schiavo case in Florida in March of last year. But (Pew found) only 29 percent of adults had actually signed an Advance Directive for health care (Living Will, […]
Posted in Events/Conferences, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 28th, 2006
The New Technology in Self-Deliverance Group — better known as NuTech — will hold a workshop as an adjunct event to the 16th biennial conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies in Toronto, Canada, on September 8-10, 2006 It was the pioneer work of the NuTech group which developed the inert gas […]
Posted in Events/Conferences, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 24th, 2006
Details of the joint conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies and Dying with Dignity, of Canada, can be seen at this site
Posted in Books, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 19th, 2006
In the 15 months it has been open, the ERGO internet bookstore has received more than three hundred thousand visitors (301,501), and 1,410 customers from around the world have purchased books or videos about choices in dying.
Posted in Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 18th, 2006
Ludwig A. Minelli, Secretary General of DIGNITAS in Switzerland, said that a report in the London Sunday Times of 16 April 2006 telling that DIGNITAS has plans “to open a chain of high street-style centres” to end the lives of people with illnesses or mental conditions such as chronic depression “is a hoax”. There are […]
Posted in Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 14th, 2006
FIRST IN AUSTRALIA, NOW PERHAPS GERMANY… On March 27, three of the German Federal States introduced in the Council of the Federal States (Bundesrat) a proposal for a new German law which, if it became law, would make it difficult to provide information on assisted suicide or self-deliverance. The proposal — in translation — is […]
Posted in RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 7th, 2006
Activities of EXIT Deutsche Schweiz Switzerland From 1 December 2004 to 31 December 2005 (13 months) EXIT Deutsche Schweiz had to deal with 268 demands for assisted suicide. Of these 162 were finally assisted: 86 women and 76 men. The average age of these persons was 76 years. In every case these assisted suicides were […]
Posted in RTD News, RTD Organizations on Apr 6th, 2006
ADMD Belgium Clarifies the legal position In ADMD Belgium’s March Bulletin, their President Jacqueline Herremans, noting the continuing confusion over the scope of the law, sets out precisely what the current Belgian law means. It defines euthanasia but does not impose a method of application on the doctor. Thus, in its first report, the Commission […]
Posted in Opinion Pieces, RTD Organizations on Mar 28th, 2006
Could there be a license to die ? Would it help relieve terminal suffering by putting everybody on notice that a person was coming to the end of their life? Emails to the ERGO List started this unusual debate:- To begin with, Derek Humphry wrote: The report for 2005 on the state’s physician-assisted suicide law […]
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