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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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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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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