Assisted-Dying Blog

You can find some interesting articles on this subject at this constantly-changing website: ERGO: www.assistedsuicide.org

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There are now two books on sale with remarkably similar and confusing titles: “Final Exits” and “Final Exit” But the subtitles should clarify that one is about the results of all manners of death, while the second is about achieving voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide: “Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die” by […]

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Belgium keeps tight reins on euthanasia legislation Belgium partially legalised euthanasia in 2002. The “act of ending the life of a person on the request of that person” is controlled by a commission that reviews patients and doctors declarations. During 2004 and 2005, according to the commission, 742 cases of legal euthanasia were reported – […]

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For those interested in reading about the subject of the right to choose to die when at life’s end, these sites offer some thought-provoking information 1. Eopinons 2. assistedsuicide.org

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As at pm on 7 Feb 06, the Dell paperback book “Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying” stood at number 7,190 in the sales chart of Amazon.com, out of their stock of over two million titles. This is the 3rd edition of a ‘how-to’ book which was a New […]

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The publisher Eleuthera, in Milan, Italy, has decided to translate and publish Derek Humphry’s latest book “The Good Euthanasia Guide: Where, What, and Who in Choices in Dying”. It will be on sale in a few months time. Eleuthera continues to sell — as it has consistently since l992 –the Italian version of ‘Final Exit’ […]

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Some have been asking whether the Australian ‘Peanut Project‘ (This blog 9 Sept 06) in trying to produce a home-made form of the barbiturate, pentobarbital, succeeded or not. As at this date (11 Oct 06) the Assay result has not been reported to us. Thus we do not know. I should point out that the […]

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Books on euthanasia received in 2006 at the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO) in author alphabetical order: Guide to a Humane Self-Chosen Death by Dr. Pieter Admiraal et al. WOZZ Foundation, Delft, The Netherlands. ISBN 9078581018. 112 pages. Paperback. Euros 25. Sold only to physicians, pharmacists and in bulk to right-to-die societies. www.wozz.nl Unplugged: […]

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The parliament of South Australia voted to ban this speech from appearing on the Internet. So here it is: Speech to SA Legislative Council by Sandra Kanck MLC. 30th Aug 2006-08-31 This is a simple motion that states the obvious. But in addressing this, I will be doing two things: a) placing on record some […]

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The arguments of the merits and de-merits of the words ‘assisted suicide’ and ‘suicide’ have been going on in the right-to-die movement for 30 years. They don’ t trouble me, but as a writer, in order to vary my style, I also use alternatives, such as ‘self-deliverance’, ‘hastened death’, ‘self-determination’. But none of us can […]

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