Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 22nd, 2010
Canada’s House of Commons has rejected a Bloc Québécois MP’s legislation to permit assisted suicide under strict conditions. Bill C-384 was defeated Wednesday afternoon on second reading by a 228-59 margin. The bill would have allowed doctors to avoid murder and manslaughter charges for helping terminally ill people or those in severe chronic pain to […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 21st, 2010
PRESS RELEASE by Candlelight Records, 20 April 2010: FEAR FACTORY TO START SECOND LEG OF AMERICAN TOUR MID-MAY Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Fear Factory are set to kick off the second leg of their American Fear Campaign tour on May 14 at The Rialto Theater in Tucson, Arizona. The tour, also featuring Prong, and Thy Will Be […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 12th, 2010
U P D A T E THE POSIBILITY OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE FOR THE TERMINALLY OR HOPELESSLY ILL, COMPETENT, ADULT PERSON IN SWITZERLAND Issued by ERGO for information only Physician-assisted suicide is legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Colombia, Albania, Switzerland, and the US states of Washington, Montana and Oregon. All have their own criteria. Except […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Living Will, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 8th, 2010
Go to this link to see an announcement of an interesting new book which deals with hastened death by choice and its impact on the whole family. ‘Imperfect Endings: A daughter’s tale of life and death’ by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter. Worth reading. Copy and paste this URL to see the publisher’s blurb. http://books.simonandschuster.com/Imperfect-Endings/Zoe-FitzGerald-Carter/9781439148242
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 22nd, 2010
To read about the outcome of using face masks instead of plastic bags in self-deliverance from a terminal illness, read this paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics about testing done in Switzerland. J Med Ethics 2010;36:174-179 doi:10.1136/jme.2009.032490 * Law, ethics and medicine Assisted suicide by oxygen deprivation with helium at the Swiss right-to-die organisation, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 17th, 2010
Re Newsweek article on Dr Larry Egbert in which a lawyer said this “The idea of someone gagging to death in a helium-filled hood is “ghoulish and frightening,” says Kathryn Tucker, legislative director for Compassion & Choices. Which brought this response: I, as an Exit member since 2005, found that article very disturbing. I can […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 9th, 2010
In Georgia, a Forsyth County Grand jury said four members of the right-to-die group, the Final Exit Network, operated a criminal enterprise that helped people die. An indictment returned Tuesday charges the Final Exit Network along with co-founder Thomas “Ted” Goodwin, 64, of Kennesaw and Punta Gorda, Fla.; Claire Blehr, 77, of Atlanta; and Dr. […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on Mar 4th, 2010
Oregon physician-assisted suicide There were 59 people in 2009 who brought their lives to an end with physician-assisted dying under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, according to a report just issued by the state’s department of health. The previous year the figure was 60 hastened deaths. During 2009, 95 prescriptions for lethal medications were […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 3rd, 2010
This is an extract from a very interesting article in the March issue of ‘Atlanta’ magazine which is well worth reading. Extract: If the right-to-die movement has a bible, it would be a 220-page book first published in 1991 and now in its third edition. Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for […]
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A woman has been charged with importing a euthanasia drug from Mexico into Australia. Two bottles of the border-controlled drug Nembutal were intercepted at Melbourne Airport last March. Australian Federal Police officers executed a search warrant on an address in the eastern suburb of Canterbury on April 15, 2009 but the woman was not charged […]
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