Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 20th, 2007
Terminally-ill woman wants right to die peacefully Ningxia Hui, China “I love life. But I don’t want to go on living.” So writes 28-year-old Li Yan in her blog, which calls for the legalisation of euthanasia. Li, from Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, has been suffering from terminal cancer since she was just a […]
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Vermont (USA) Right-to-die Bill advances out of committee Friday Mar 15, 2007 The House Judiciary Committee voted 6-4 in favor of a bill that would allow patients with terminal conditions with a prognosis of less than six months to live to get a prescription to hasten their deaths. Another House committee also has recommended the […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 20th, 2007
Woman’s voluntary death relaunches euthanasia debate in Spain Granada, Spain – For more than two decades, Inmaculada Echevarria had wanted to die. The 51-year-old Spanish woman had suffered for 40 years from a muscular dystrophy which gradually deprived her of all autonomy. The disease forced her to give her son up for adoption after birth, […]
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Montpelier, Vt (USA) — The Vermont House Human Services Committee hearing continues on the recently reintroduced assisted-suicide bill (H.44). — Full text of House Bill 44 (H.44) introduced to The Vermont General Assembly is available at http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/bills/intro/H-044.HTM Subject: Health; end of life; patient-directed dying AN ACT RELATING TO PATIENT CHOICE AND CONTROL AT END OF […]
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The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) board of directors approved an updated “physician-assisted death” policy statement on Feb.14, 2007 “The AAHPM takes a position of ‘studied neutrality’ on the subject of whether PAD (physician-assisted death) should be legally regulated or prohibited, believing its members should instead continue to strive to find the […]
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Backers of a proposal to allow terminally ill Californians to hasten their deaths with lethal drugs pointed Thursday to legalized assisted suicide in Oregon, where a new report shows it is used sparingly. Forty-six Oregon residents, most of them cancer patients, used the law to end their lives in 2006, according to the Oregon Department […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Mar 4th, 2007
EIGHT out of 10 Australians believe the terminally ill should have a right to choose a medically assisted death, according to a new poll out today. The Newspoll research, conducted in February, found 80 per cent of adults surveyed supported the terminally ill’s right to voluntary euthanasia. Just 14 per cent were opposed and 6 […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Feb 20th, 2007
Doctors no longer help terminally ill patients to enjoy a peaceful death because of the Harold Shipman case, according to a leading consultant. Speaking in Glasgow, Simon Kenwright, a semi-retired consultant gastroenteologist from East Kent hospital, said fears of prosecution are affecting patient treatment. In a lecture to 100 members of Friends at the end […]
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California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez has announced that he will back a bill to allow terminally ill people to hasten their deaths with lethal prescriptions. Similar bills have failed in the last two years, but supporters say Nuñez, a Los Angeles Democrat, could make the difference. “We are more hopeful now than ever that we […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 14th, 2007
A CAUTIONARY NOTE TO OUR MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS FROM ERGO (Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization) “The Peaceful Pill Handbook” By Dr. Philip Nitschke & Dr. Fiona Stewart To avoid any possible misunderstanding about this new book, our supporters should note that there is no such single unit as a ‘peaceful pill’ described in the book, […]
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