Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 7th, 2011
The attempt by a few right-wingers to make everybody who uses the Oregon Death With Dignity Act for physician-assisted suicide take a mental health check first, has collapsed. The Eugene Register-Guard newspaper reports 7 April 2011, when surveying the present legislature’s work: “Some divisive bills don’t even make it to the public hearing stage. House […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 6th, 2011
PRESS RELEASE Last Wish Granted, the Colombian organization that has been quietly referring their members in Colombia to physicians for end of life consultations, has accepted their first international member for a medical referral. Last Wish Granted follows the guidelines put in place by the Constitutional Court of Colombia’s C-239-97 decision which disallows criminal penalties […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Apr 3rd, 2011
Nan Maitland, a founder of a group supporting elderly suicide, has taken her life to avoid prolonged suffering in her old age. She suffered from severe arthritis. Maitland, born in 1926, used to live in Kent, where she brought up her three children before moving to London 40 years ago. She dispensed advice on suicide […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Mar 23rd, 2011
Nine conservative Oregon legislators have introduced legislation to undermine the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. They want to enact an assumption that any terminally ill patient who requests aid in dying is mentally unfit. It is House Bill 2016. (It failed to get out of committee.) No evidence exists that any patient with impaired judgment […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 21st, 2011
The Eugene Register-Guard in Oregon carried a lengthy article on Sunday, 20 March, 2011, reporting the death of a man using a helium hood kit purchased from GLADD group in California. A rather sour article but informative to those who might not know about the background. Of course the death of this man is sad, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2011
Vancouver, B.C. February 21, 2011 The Farewell Foundation for the Right to Die commenced a constitutional challenge to the validity of s.241(b) of the Criminal Code this morning. Section 241(b) enacts the offence of aiding and abetting suicide, which is punishable by a term of incarceration of up to 14 years. The Farewell Foundation is […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Feb 20th, 2011
At a packed Portland Film Festival on Saturday, I saw the best documentary film ever made on assisted suicide for the terminally ill. (It topped Sundance prizes 2011). Amidst the sorrows of dying and death there were courageous cameos and plenty of love, laughter and hugs. Artistic and tasteful, showing the huge progress right-to-die has […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 4th, 2011
Last week’s Sundance Film Festival winner for the best documentary video was ‘How to Die in Oregon’ in which I have a tiny cameo role explaining the history of how the physician-assisted suicide law came about. Overall, I’m told, it is a very moving film; not seen it yet. The film will be showing at […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, Suicide (rational) on Jan 31st, 2011
“How to Die in Oregon,†an intimate and poignant film about the impact of Oregon’s 1994 Death With Dignity Act, won the Grand Jury Prize in the U. S. Documentary Competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, one of the most prestigious awards that can be won by a non-fiction film anywhere in the world. […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jan 10th, 2011
By Derek Humphry By far the worst and most wrenching dilemma in the field of a person’s right to choose to die involves victims of Alzheimer’s Disease. Once the disease has got hold, are they ever able to make a decision about ending their life? Suicide is not a crime, but assistance in the act […]
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