Posted in Assisted Suicide, Blogroll, Books, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Oct 24th, 2007
What happened to the pioneering right-to-die group When Gerald Larue and Derek Humphry entered the Los Angeles Press Club on 12 August 1980 to announce to the world the formation of the Hemlock Society, there were many doubters that it could last. After all, it was the only organization in America currently saying that assisted […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2007
The judge in the extradition hearing concerning the Rev. George David Exoo will give his decision this coming Friday. October 26, 2007 The hearing will be at the federal building in Charleston, West Virginia. If the judge rules against Mr Exoo, he will be deported to Ireland to face criminal charges in Dublin alleging that […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Oct 4th, 2007
Following the loss of her father earlier this year, Sharon Osbourne has made her own end-of-life plans, reports MSNBC.com. She and husband Ozzy have decided to choose their own ends should a mentally degenerative disease afflict either of them. ”I saw my father suffer from the day he came back into my life in 2002 […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Oct 1st, 2007
The Associated Press reported: Assisted suicide research criticized: professor replies By William McCall, The Associated Press, October 1, 2007 PORTLAND – Doctor-assisted suicide in Oregon and The Netherlands does not result in more deaths among certain groups of terminally ill patients such as the poor or senior citizens, according to a controversial new study. The […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Sep 28th, 2007
September 27, 2007 Dublin radio station 98FM wrote a new page in the history of Irish broadcasting. At 8:00 p.m., hosts Paul Connolly and Allison O’Reilly interviewed Derek Humphry, a distinguished journalist, founder of The Hemlock Society, and an international spokesman for the right-to-die movement. This episode of the call-in talk show, “The Inbox,” was […]
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Detailed illustrated advice on how to bring terminal suffering to a peaceful, nonviolent end. This video produced by journalist and author Derek Humphry, is a great companion to his book ‘Final Exit.’ Humphry, who founded the original Hemlock Society, provided the direction and spoken voice in this video adaptation of his famous ‘how-to’ book which […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Sep 21st, 2007
Final Exit, Digital Edition 2007 (eBook PDF) The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society Revised 3rd edition in digital format, Updated July 2007 eBook PDF • 1MB • 214 pages ISBN 0-3853365-3-5 Price: $32.00 Brand NEW Digital Version of Final Exit, updated July 2007. […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Sep 21st, 2007
There are hopes for new promising PAS (Physician Assisted Suicide) developments in Germany. Dr. Roger Kusch, a former Senator in the Council of the City of Hamburg, Germany, with responsibilities for the Judiciary, announced last week that he has developed a new method of offering PAS help to terminally and chronically ill patients. The procedures […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Sep 13th, 2007
I hear on good authority that the first steps towards having a citizens’ initiative vote in the state of WASHINGTON in November 2008 (at the time of the general and presidential election) have been taken towards a law permitting physician-assisted suicide for the dying. Concerned groups have just created a PAC called: “It’s My Decision […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Sep 6th, 2007
“Final Exit’, Derek Humphry‘s bestselling ‘how-to’ paperback book on voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, can now also be downloaded directly to a home computer, permanently stored as a pdf. file, and also one copy printed out. The value of storing it as an Adobe pdf file is that the index guide will take the reader […]
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