A state House committee has voted 6-1 to hold a bill that would have legalized physician-assisted suicide in Hawaii. House Bill 675 faced overwhelmingly opposition during a hearing before the House Health Committee, chaired by Rep. Josh Green, (D-Keauhou, Honokohau). A similar bill in the Senate is also not expected to make it out of […]
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For years German right-to-die leaders and activists have lived under a cloud of uncertainty whether physicians, “guidesâ€, friends, relatives, etc who had rendered perfectly legal passive assistance at the scene , would nevertheless subsequently be subject to prosecution, if, after witnessing the patient’s suicide, they failed to immediately take emergency measures to nullify the patient’s […]
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A year after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide law, lawmakers in Hawaii plan to examine the issue once again. The proposal to allow competent, terminally ill adults obtain a lethal dose of medication to end their lives will be heard by the House Health Committee. Just as with past proposals, the bill […]
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A ruling by Switzerland’s highest court has opened up the possibility that people with serious mental illnesses could be helped by doctors to take their own lives. Switzerland already allows physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients under certain circumstances. The Federal Tribunal’s decision puts mental illnesses on the same level as physical ones. “It must […]
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An Italian doctor who switched off the life support of a paralysed man at the centre of a battle over euthanasia has been cleared of wrongdoing by a medical panel, in what he called a victory for patients’ rights. Anaesthetist Mario Riccio divided Roman Catholic Italy by granting Piergiorgio Welby his wish to die in […]
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The Swiss Federal Court acknowledges the right to an accompanied suicide as a human right. Also mentally ill are entitled, if they have capacity of discernment. Decision creates legal security. Uster/Wetzikon, February 1st (.-) The Swiss Federal Court has acknowledged the right of a person to determine the way and the point in time of […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Opinion Pieces, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2007
Four out of five people in Britain believe the law should allow a doctor to end the life of a terminally ill patient who is in pain if they wish to die. In a finding confirming that British public opinion is at odds with the law, the British Social Attitudes Survey reveals strong support for […]
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Three American organizations which were once chapters of the Hemlock Society USA (1980-2003) have chosen to separate from their new parent organization, Compassion and Choices, and revert to their original names. The Hemlock Society of San Diego, Hemlock of Illinois and the Hemlock Society of Florida Inc., have also elected to operate in the future […]
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A French woman who suffered from a debilitating disease took her life in Spain with the aid of a pro-euthanasia group. The Spanish daily El Pais reported how Madeleine Z., 69, was helped by members of the Association for the Right to a Dignified Death. Madeleine, who suffered from the incurable lateral amiotrophic sclerosis, gave […]
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There is also Ex-International Those attending the Toronto conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies last September were interested to hear from Dr Elke Baezner that there is yet another organisation in Switzerland devoted to helping the dying. This is Ex-International, which operates in much the same way as Dignitas but very […]
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