ERGO would like to draw your attention to a music track due to be released by the hard rock band Fear Factory, titled ‘Final Exit’.
Quietly voiced at the very beginning of the song are the words “Final Exit – The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying”, the exact title of my book available at ERGO Store.
The lyrics follow:
There is no compassion as life fades away
This self deliverance the choice you have made
Contemplate your last breath
As you see the face of death
Contemplate your last breath
Breath, slowly breath
Goodbye
The pain in your life I cannot perceive
Crimes of humanity I see and believe
Contemplate your last breath
As you see the face of death
Contemplate your last breath
Breath, slowly breath
Goodbye
Like the knife that cuts through me
Stabbing uncertainty
It bleeds my life I know
Draining my heart my soul…
Contemplate your last breath
Breath, slowly breath
Goodbye
Goodbye
New Fear Factory Album title: MECHANIZE
European release date: 02.05.10 via AFM Records
U.S. release date: 02.09.10 via CandleLight Records.
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The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday (12.31.09) that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure.
Patients and doctors had been waiting for the state’s high court to step in after a lower court decided a year ago that constitutional rights to privacy and dignity protect the right to die.
The Montana Supreme Court opinion will now give doctors in the state the freedom to prescribe the necessary drugs to mentally competent, terminally ill patients without fear of being prosecuted, advocates said.
Tags: Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity, Dr. Kevorkian, Euthanasia, euthanasia laws, Final Exit, Hemlock, Montana, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, terminal illness
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ERGO’s death with dignity news digest list is available to you. So if you have a serious and enduring interest in this subject, consider subscribing to ERGO’s emailing list. (No charges.) Exchange news and views on a wide range of right-to-die topics. Only subscribe if you in principle support the right of a competent adult to choose to die when physical suffering is unbearable. CLICK or copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://www.lists.opn.org/mailman/listinfo/right-to-die_lists.opn.org
Tags: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, humphry, Self-Deliverance, terminal illness
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For an update on the legal position of the 8 volunteers of the Final Exit Network facing prosecutions in Georgia and Arizona read the December 09 issue, just out, of the Final Exit Network‘s newsletter on the web at this link
Click to access Final_Exit_Newsletter_Vol_6_No_1-3%20for%20Web.pdf
Tags: Death With Dignity, Derek Humphry, Final Exit Network, right to die, Self-Deliverance, terminal illness
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A recent posting warned that not all preparations of veterinary pentobarbital (“Nembutal”) have the same concentration. In order for a 100-ml bottle to have 6 grams of pentobarbital, the concentration of the drug needs to be 60 milligrams (mg) per millilitre (ml), so read the fine print on the label. Two bottles are needed for quick, certain self-deliverance from a terminal or hopeless illness. One is risky.
Tags: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, humphry, Nembutal, pentobarbital, veterinary Nembutal
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The Mystery of the Canadian “dignityindeath.com†Park Bench Plaques Solved!
By Richard N. Cote
In November 2009, memorial plaques dedicated to the lives of three people who had died distressing deaths from terminal illnesses started to appear on park benches in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The sponsor of the plaques was “dignityindeath.com,†a group I had never heard of. After contacting leaders of major pro- and anti-euthanasia groups for information about the group, I found that no one else had ever heard of them, either. Hmmm. A mystery!
Their website is both elegant and restrained in its graphic design. However its home page consists solely of a statement of belief in the right to die as a personal choice and civil right. From there, links take the reader to other sites describing living wills and right-to-die groups. Period. The site does not solicit memberships or money. No officers or staff are listed, and the Continue Reading »
Tags: aid in dying, assisted death, choice in dying, Death With Dignity, euthanasia and assisted death, Final Exit Network, Living Wills, Park bench plaques
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In the Netherlands, if the dying patient takes the deadly mixture himself it is called assisted suicide; if the physician gives the medicines by injection it is called euthanasia.
It makes a difference for the physician. The responsibility is openly and clearly the decision of the patient if the patient takes the medicines himself. But the statistics tell the tale:
In 2008 the Dutch controlling committees received 2331 declarations, of which 2146 were cases of euthanasia, 152 cases of assisted suicide and 33 cases of a combination of the two.
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Euthanasia still a taboo for mental patients – even in the Netherlands
“People suffering from an incurable mental disease have the same legal right to euthanasia as physically terminally ill patients in the Netherlands, but they almost never get it.”
Practitioners reviewed the situation of mental patients and euthanasia at a symposium organized by the Right to Die-NL foundation in the Dutch town of Ede on Monday. Two cases came before the regional euthanasia review committees last year, of an estimated 200 – 300 mental patients who asked for euthanasia.
“The suffering of psychiatric patients can be just as intolerable as many forms of physical suffering,” said Eugene Sutorius, a professor of criminal law and a former president of the foundation.”
To read the full article
http://www.nrc.nl/international/Features/article2422766.ece/Euthanasia_still_a_taboo_for_mental_patients_-_even_in_the_Netherlands
Tags: Assisted Suicide, assisted suicide laws, Dignitas, Dutch law, Final Exit, Helium Method, Netherlands, Right to Die-NL, Self-Deliverance
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There is a long and extremely interesting article in the Guardian in London. Worth reading. To read it, go to (you may need to copy/paste this URL)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/18/assisted-suicide-dignitas-house
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Inside the Dignitas house
More than 1,000 people have traveled to Switzerland to end their lives. But what is it really like inside the world’s first assisted suicide clinic?
A selected excerpt:
The vast majority of people who visit Dignitas are the terminally ill or those with an incurable, progressive disease. “Usually, if the person has terminal cancer, motor neuron disease or multiple sclerosis and they are telling us ‘I don’t like to live some weeks or months until the terrible end’, then it is quite clear and we have no difficulty in saying yes,” Minelli says.
Then there are those people who are just tired of life. With life expectancy growing and medical sophistication improving, people are increasingly worried about whether they will be “condemned to linger on”, Minelli says, “forced to end their lives in an institution. Our members say: with our pets, when they are old and in pain, we help them. Why am I not entitled to go to the vet? Why haven’t I such an opportunity? We hear this often.”
end excerpt from Guardian article
Tags: Assisted Suicide, Dignitas, dignitas switzerland, euthanasia and assisted death, Final Exit, Self-Deliverance
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Bleak outlook for aid-in-dying for the mentally ill and clinically depressed
Time was when right-to-die groups were looked to for help exclusively by terminally ill, and sometimes hopelessly ill, persons. But nowadays with our greater public visibility, credibility and legislative progress, many mentally ill persons are approaching us expecting positive help.
From their point of view, the suffering is as great as a person dying of a physical illness. And it probably is. They argue that a terminal patient knows that soon death will bring about the end of pain, whilst they are condemned to a lifetime of suffering. They report that they have endured long hours of therapy, and used mountains of prescribed medications. Still they would prefer death, they say.
Medical assisted suicide for persons with mental health problems, including severe depression, is nearly impossible to get, even in the countries where it is legal to do so. That’s the reality today.
Doctors find it raises too many red flags Continue Reading »
Tags: aid in dying, assisted death, Assisted Suicide, assisted suicide laws, choice in dying, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, helium suicide, hemlock society
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