Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Jean's Way, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 11th, 2023
“Jean’s Way” book on Kindle This is the cult classic “Jean’s Way” by Derek Humphry, first published in l978. It outlines the story of a woman suffering from incurable cancer who at the end, rather than endure more, she took her life. This book has been one of the most significant books of the right-to-die […]
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After a lengthy legal battle, an Italian man became the first in the country to be permitted to die by medically assisted suicide . The 44-year-old man died in Italy on Thursday, in the first case of its kind in the country. While it is technically against the law to help someone take their own […]
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Posted in Derek Humphry, exit bag, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Nembutal, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jun 9th, 2022
Consider the end. Read the best literature on the subject of a peaceful, self-chosen death when at life’s end. http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Elder suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on Apr 20th, 2022
U.K. lacks aid in dying laws -more suicides People with severe and potentially terminal health conditions are more than twice as likely to take their own lives than the general population, new data from the British Office for National Statistics (ONS) published today ( 20 April 2022) has indicated. The ONS examined suicide rates among […]
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Sisters Lila Ammouri and Susan Frazier decided to end their lives at a Swiss assisted dying clinic after becoming “tired of life”, according to an advocate who was advising them. Dr Ammouri, a palliative care doctor aged 54, and Ms Frazier, 49, had been suffering from medical “frustrations” such as chronic insomnia, vertigo and back […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), Switzerland on Mar 27th, 2022
Sisters Lila Ammouri 54, and Susan Frazier 49, from Arizona, US travelled to Basel Switzerland and died at the Pegasos clinic in Liestal on February 11, 2022. The sisters were members of Exit International, having joined the organization in October 2020. They subsequently joined Pegasos in March 2021. They sought information from Exit on ending their […]
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Just been talking on the phone with a woman in New York who paid $1,000 for 100 Nembutal tablets from a Mexican seller on the internet which were never delivered. In all the years I’ve been monitoring these type of drug offers for self-deliverance I have not heard of one that was completed. They’re all […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dr. Kevorkian, Dutch euthanasia, Final Exit, Jean's Way, physician-assisted suicide, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on Aug 3rd, 2021
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Suicide Act in England – the law that criminalized assisted dying for terminally ill people. There are now Assisted Dying Bills coming in both the House of Lords and the Scottish Parliament. On many occasions in the past such law reform has failed but now public opinion has […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dr. Kevorkian, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Kevorkian, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Jul 27th, 2021
There is an interesting peer-reviewed research published in OMEGA-Journal = of Death and Dying. Click here (https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211033368) = to read the article – “Why People Think They Might Hasten Their Death When= Faced with Irremediable Health Conditions Compared to Why They Actually Do= So.” (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00302228211033368) This is an extract: Since Derek Humphry’s best-selling book in […]
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Author error in new movie “Nomadland” ( 3 Oscars 2021) CORRECTION re the book ‘Final Exit’ Beginning at the 37-minute mark of this fine movie, the protagonist is having one of many “slice of life”-type conversations with a new friend who suddenly appears to be sick. The new friend explains that she had small-cell lung […]
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