SHOULD PEOPLE HAVE THE CHOICE TO END THEIR LIVES? “End of Life: Exploring Death in America.” Developed in conjunction with a series produced by National Public Radio. This web site contains an extraordinary range of material about dying and death, including stories submitted by ordinary people about experiences with their own life-threatening illnesses as well […]
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DHARWAD, India: The recent demise of Vishwaaradhya Siddalingaiah Hiremath (77) who is said to have died of his own accord here, has triggered a debate as to whether self- willed-death could be considered as another form of euthanasia in order to circumvent legal hassles or a glorification of natural death. According to Hiremath’s family sources, […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Dec 25th, 2006
A BOOK that gives detailed advice on suicide, including a recipe for cyanide, has been cleared for publication in Australia. Author Dr Philip Nitschke has now ordered a print run in Australia after the Office of Film and Literature Classification’s board voted to allow the book to be sold in book stores wrapped in plastic […]
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At 11 am Pacific time, 24 December 2006, the paperback 3rd edition of ‘Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying” by Derek Humphry stood in the Amazon.com sales ranking at # 5,573 out of two million titles on sale through that source. It has been on sale since l991, when […]
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Italy’s Roman Catholic Church has denied the right to a religious funeral to a terminally ill man whose fight to die sparked a fierce euthanasia debate. Piergiorgio Welby died in Rome on Wednesday when a doctor turned off his life support machine at his request. Church officials said they could not grant the request of […]
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About Piergiorgio WELBY Piergiorgio WELBY, an Italian citizen suffering from muscular dystrophy, has taken upon himself to open the public debate on an individual’s right to choose the time of his/her death. He mustered his very last resources to defend this right which ought to be a prerogative of any person afflicted with an incurable […]
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The Nov/Dec 2006 issue of ‘Deliverance’, the newsletter of Exit International in Australia, leads off with the following report:- “First Peaceful Pill Assay Renders Results. “In October, the first chemical analysis results of the Peanut Project’s Peaceful Pill were obtained. The group had succeeded in producing significant quantities of barbiturates, the dominant component being Pentobarbital. […]
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Dr Jack Kevorkian will be paroled,says the Detroit News Convicted suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian will be paroled on June 1, state officials and his lawyer confirmed today. Mayer (Mike) Morganroth, Kevorkian’s Southfield attorney, said a three-member parole board panel unanimously granted Kevorkian parole after a hearing at Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater last Thursday. “He’s […]
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More support for euthanasia. The number of Italians who approve of euthanasia is rising, according to the 40th annual report on the social situation of Italy by Censis (Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali), published at the beginning of December. Now 57 per cent of Italians feel that patients with incurable diseases, or close family members of […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing, Opinion Pieces, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2006
What do you call death and an assisted death? By Derek Humphry Recent controversy in Oregon about the best term to describe how a doctor helps a terminally ill person to die under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act (1994) set me thinking about all the terms we use to describe ways of dying and […]
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