Information for terminally ill or hopelessly physically ill, competent adults
‘Last Rights Publications’ in Canada went out of business, just after Final Exit 3rd edition was published. So ignore the information In Final Exit paperback page 140 about where to purchase the helium hood kit. (This out-of-date info is not in the April 2010 edition of ‘Final Exit’.)
Also recent Final Exit eBook editions noted the helium hood kit was available from the GLADD Group. That is no longer the case.
Helium Hood Kits are no longer available from the GLADD Group. No other source of the kits is known at this time. Review the comments below for additional info.
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Tags: helium, inert gas
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Quote:
‘Knowing how to die well not only makes life more enjoyable but ensures that it is more endurable towards the inevitable end.’
—-Derek Humphry. Founder Hemlock Society USA, author ‘Final Exit’
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The Adelaide Advertiser in Australia reported that a euthanasia method using a readily available gas was launched at a workshop in its city. More than 80 people – mostly elderly – gathered at Fullerton Community Centre as Dr Philip Nitschke outlined methods to enable a reliable and quick death.
This newspaper article stopped short of explaining anything more. (Australian censorship laws are strict.) The inert gas here will be either helium or nitrogen, in disposable tanks. This method of self-deliverance was developed by NuTech and has been used in America by several hundred people in the last seven years.
See ‘Final Exit’ 3rd edition and its Addendum.
Tags: Helium Method, inert gas
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Take a look at this elegant web site by French choice-in-dying activist Jacqueline Jencquel, which is full — in two languages — of news, plus sharp pictures which load quickly.
http://www.jacquelinejencquel.com
—Derek Humphry 12/13/08
Tags: euthanasia in France
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It is interesting to note that two of the most influential voices in British publishing have — in editorials — demanded that something be done about the archaic laws on assisted suicide prevailing in Britain: THE TIMES and the ECONOMIST have now spoken out; perhaps others will follow.
It chanced that I first raised the issue of justifiable assisted suicide in the UK in 1978 when I recounted in the book Jean’s Way, how I had helped my dying wife to hasten her end at her request to avoid further suffering. (There was a police inquiry but no prosecution followed.) Despite the furor then, and similar cries since by others, nothing happened.
Since 1936 there have been eight attempts in the Westminster Parliament to change the law to be more merciful and understanding of end-of-life situations, but each time the dead hand of the churches has blocked reform.
It is time that public opinion — 80 percent in favor — had its demands finally respected in this so-called ‘mother of democracies.’
–Derek Humphry, Oregon
12.12.2008
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There is no lawful medical assisted suicide in Sweden and Denmark, as some people seem to think, writes Derek Humphry. It’s a common myth.
Voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, by doctors only under strict guidelines, is available to dying residents in the Netherlands and Belgium, and soon also to be in Luxembourg. Foreigners cannot use this law.
Switzerland has approved assisted suicide (including foreigners) for some 70 years. Euthanasia (injection) is banned. It can be nondoctor help also in Switzerland. Two groups, Dignitas and Ex International will consider very ill people. They have web sites. Rarely will they help people with mental health problems.
The US state of Oregon has had physician-assisted suicide for its residents since l998. Two doctors must agree in writing that the person is dying and not clinically depressed. The adjoining state of Washington has recently passed a law similar to Oregon’s which will take effect in mid 2009. Again, euthanasia is banned, and no help to die can be offered to persons with mental health problems.
Tags: Where is assisted suicide
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Although I must declare an interest in this publication as I am mentioned in it, this booklet exposes an unusual glimpse into the inner workings of the progressive, investigative side of the worldwide euthanasia movement…who’s behind it, what advances it has made, who drove it, and so on. Â
Extremely well written by Richard Cote, who previous to this research and publication, had no connections to the right-to-die movement. The illustrations are interesting, too. And because it deliberately ‘flew under the radar,’ this is the first telling of a special story. The publication can be obtained via Amazon.com.
It is the ten-year account of an unorganized, interesting group of people (Philip Nitschke, John Hofsess, George Exoo, Charles Whitcher, myself Derek Humphry and a few others) who put their minds together to find a reliable, legal, non-medical way by which dying persons could painlessly, non-violently and quickly end their lives.
What emerged after going down several fruitless avenues was the helium hood method of self-deliverance which is now widely used across North America. NuTech continues to search for even better ways of adult, competent choices in dying.
There is no ‘how-to’ in this booklet. That’s in ‘Final Exit’ paperback and e-book.
Tags: In search of gentle death
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New Booklet Profiles Developers of Gentle Ways to End Unendurable Lives
IN A PERFECT WORLD, when life is coming to its natural end, most people would like to die peacefully, at home, surrounded by loving friends and family members. Sadly, this rarely happens anymore, and many die in extreme agony. Polls show that between 60% and 80% of all people in the Western world believe that physicians should be allowed to hasten the deaths of rational, terminally ill people experiencing unendurable pain if requested. But most local laws forbid what many believe to be the ultimate civil liberty: the right to die.
This booklet examines the achievements of a tiny, international group of physicians and technicians who banded together in 1999. Their goal: to develop simple, painless, legal end-of-life self-liberation technologies which enable those facing unendurable pain and suffering to die with dignity at the time and place of their own choosing.
The team included America’s Derek Humphry, founder of The Hemlock Society and author the international best-seller, Final Exit; the Reverend George Exoo, a Unitarian minister and AIDS activist; Canada’s John L. Hofsess, founder of The Right to Die Society of Canada; and Australia’s Dr. Philip Nitschke, founder of Exit International. These right-to-die pioneers formed an almost unknown group called NuTech. This is the only time they have ever told their story, and they trusted it to only one writer: RICHARD N. CÔTÉ the author of three acclaimed biographies, a social history, and many professional journal articles.
“In Search of Gentle Death” (ISBN 978-1-929175-36-9), 42 pp., 6†x 9â€, is available now from www.Amazon.com, from the publisher, www.CorinthianBooks.com, and through bookstores nationwide.
Tags: NuTech
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German historians are compiling a register of 9,000 mentally ill people killed by the Nazis as part of Hitler’s euthanasia policy. Berlin’s Freie University and Brandenburg’s memorial trust are leading the project.
Hitler first outlined his Nazi euthanasia campaign, which would later be called Operation T4, in his book “Mein Kampf.” Believed to have claimed 70,000 victims between January 1940 and August 1941 alone, the idea behind Operation T4 was disseminated through Nazi propaganda films depicting the mentally or terminally ill as “useless mouths to feed.”
Financed by the German lottery, the university in Berlin and the state of Brandenburg’s memorial trust, which is located in the town of Brandenburg, have decided to lead the one year project because they feel the issue of euthanasia during Hitler’s reign has not received the proper attention it deserves.
“We have wanted to do this for years, but the state archives and many of the necessary information sources only became available after German re-unification,” said Guenter Morsch, a researcher at the Brandenburg memorial trust.
Tags: Euthanasia, mentally ill, Nazi
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For those who like to see actual, final polling figures in Washington State on November 4, 2008, here they are…
The question to the electorate was this:
“Initiative Measure 1000 concerns allowing certain terminally ill competent adults to obtain lethal prescriptions”
Result:
YESÂ Â 1,599,797Â Â (57.91 percent)
NOÂ Â Â 1,162,742Â Â (42.09 percent)
Total votes:Â 2,762,539
Of the three initiatives on the Washington ballot, more cast votes on Measure 1000. The law will not take effect until July 2009.
Tags: dying, Euthanasia, hastened death, physician assisted death
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