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Two-thirds of nurses [in the UK] support the legalisation of assisted suicide, results of an Independent Nurse survey reveal.
Of 108 nurses who responded to the survey, 64 per cent said they thought assisted suicide should be legalised.
In addition, 67 per cent said that they thought that clinicians should be able to assist terminally ill patients who wish to end their lives if they are in chronic pain.
Many nurses responding to the survey said they thought that clear guidelines for practitioners would need to be in place in the event of assisted suicide being legalised.
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A 93-year-old Belgian woman has died after going on a 10-day hunger strike last month to force doctors to help her die, her family said. Amelie Van Esbeen, born in 1916, was surrounded by family members at a home where she lived for the past five years.
“The main thing is that her request for euthanasia was finally approved and that her decision relaunched the debate on how life should end,” her grandson said.
According to her doctors Van Esbeen did not qualify for euthanasia under a 2002 law which authorizes doctors to help patients die if they are suffering from a “serious terminal illness” and “constant and unbearable pain that cannot be relieved”.
Van Esbeen ended her hunger strike on March 24 and made a written euthanasia request which was accepted by a different doctor who helped her die on Wednesday around noon, her family said.
(Report from Expatica, Beligum)
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Liberty and Death
A manifesto concerning an individual’s right to choose to die
In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty –- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing.
Whereas modern medicine has brought great benefits to humanity, it cannot entirely solve the pain and distress of the dying process.
Each person deals with death in their individual way. Which way is determined by their health, their ethics, and personal living conditions.
The degree to which physical pain and psychological distress can be tolerated is different in all humans. Quality of life judgments are private and personal, thus only the sufferer can make relevant decisions.
Persuasion or provocation to the act of self-killing are deplorable and should be punished according to relevant laws. ‘Suicide’ no longer Continue Reading »
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Ted Goodwin, one of the four persons charged by Georgia police with assisting a suicide, told the Associated Press on 03.17.09:
“We believe that it is the right of every mentally competent adult to determine whether he or she is suffering,” Goodwin said. “We do not believe this should be left to the physicians, church leaders or politicians. This is the right of every mentally competent individual to make this decision themselves.”
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Luxembourg has become the third European Union country, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to decriminalise voluntary euthanasia.
Terminally ill people will be able to have their lives ended after receiving the approval of two doctors and a panel of experts.
Last year, Luxembourg became embroiled in a constitutional crisis when Grand Duke Henri refused to sign the euthanasia bill into law. The crisis led to his power being curtailed and laws no longer need to be signed by him.
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For almost 30 years people in our movement have found themselves in trouble with legal authorities. Some have had prolonged court cases; a few have spent time in prison, most have been “busted” for their compassionate efforts to end suffering. Now, again, four of our volunteers have been arrested for providing support for a peaceful death.
I would like to collect stories from all of you who have been a subject of law enforcement to understand how these prosecutions have affected your lives and your work and what we can all learn from these incidents. I would like to call the edited book Persecution of Compassion, self-publishing, and donating any proceeds to the World Federation. If you have such a story please contact me. Thank you.
Faye Girsh
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858-456-2881
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A Scottish woman starved and dehydrated herself to death to get around the law which bans euthanasia. The 75-year old with motor neurone disease received advice from a campaign group which supports terminally ill patients who want to end their lives. It has now reignited the debate on assisted suicide.
Dr Libby Wilson, medical adviser for campaign group Friends at the End, described the Scottish woman’s case to stv news. Dr Wilson said: “She had motor neurone disease and she was very disabled. She couldn’t speak properly and she just decided that she didn’t want to go on and on until she got to the stage where she couldn’t swallow her own saliva and she would actually choke to death.” The retired GP gave advice to the woman who ended her life by not eating or drinking for 25 days – because euthanasia is illegal in Britain.
She said: “Still the thought of depriving yourself of fluids, it’s dreadful that people have to even think about it.”
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“I am extremely concerned by the arrest of these people who are dedicated to supporting people’s right to a dignified death,†said Sonja Eggerickx, president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU).
“I met with one of the arrested men, Ted Goodwin, at the IHEU World Humanist Congress in Washington, DC, last summer. He was a very compassionate man, who clearly cared deeply about helping to end unnecessary suffering. These draconian charges raises new doubts about the outdated, and conflicting, laws on euthanasia in the US.â€
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A British couple who were both suffering from terminal cancer have died at a voluntary euthanasia clinic in Switzerland. Peter and Penelope Duff, from Bath, ended their lives at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich last Friday.
Their daughter Helena Conibear said her father, who was 80, and her mother, who was 70, had “passed away peacefully together” at the centre.
Mr Duff had been suffering from colon and liver cancer and his wife had been suffering from a rare form of cancer.
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