There has been a burst of publicity recently about the availability of the barbiturate pentobarbital (Nembutal) being purchased over the counter at vet. supply stores in Mexico. Apparently, dozens of Australians travel all the way to Mexico, at a cost of some $3,000 USD to get the drug which is lethal is overdose. But all the publicity may cause a backlash from the Mexican authorities. Reuters newsagency recently reported the following in an article on ‘suicide tourism’:-
“A Mexican health ministry spokesman said it was working with the agriculture ministry to step up control of veterinary medicines, but declined to give details.”
Americans and Canadians have been quietly going into Mexico for 20 or more years buying veterinary Nembutal for their planned self-deliverance from a terminal illness. But with this flurry of publicity it seems likely that the Mexican government will shut down this source, as they did some years ago when pharmacies there were selling serious drugs and the media made a scandal out of it.
The availability of fast-acting barbiturates from vet.supply stores in Mexico has been reported in my book ‘Final Exit’ ever since l991.
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How to help the Washington State Ballot initiative planned for this November
The aim is to introduce a law similar to Oregon’s ten year old physician-assisted dying law. The PAC driving the campaign (formerly called “It’s My Decision“) is now called Yes! on I-1000 (www.yeson1000.org).
Running the campaign is a coalition of right to die groups (Compassion and Choices of Washington, C&C National, Death With Dignity National Center, and ex-Washington Governor Booth Gardner.) The coalition is called the Washington Death With Dignity Coalition.
The best way to help the campaign is to either make direct, nondeductible donations, by sending checks to:
YES! on I-1000
PO Box 21984
Seattle, WA 98111
Or visit the website, www.yeson1000.org, and click on the “Contribute Now” button to make a donation online.
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Re tv program “Reverend Death” on Channel 4, UK, tonight Monday, May 19, at 10 pm
Two clips from the film are already on the Channel 4 web site:
http://www.channel4.com/video/reverend-death/series-1/.
The video is best seen with Internet Explorer
Clip #2 tells how Exoo and Thomas were going to become “assisted suicidemartyrs” if they felt they would be arrested for the Toole affair in Dublin.
Very revealing material. Exoo is a ‘loose cannon’ of the American right to die movement, as is Susan Wilson, also seen on this TV program.
Neither person is connected with the four main USA right to die groups.
—–Derek Humphry ERGO
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Chronology of Right-to-Die Events During the 20th Century and into the Millenium, 1906 – 2008
This chronology has been revised and updated and well worth a look, and a bookmark, for future reference. Visit
http://www.finalexit.org/more.html
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For present and future reference, there is now a complete list of the assisted suicide laws in every USA State on ERGO’s home page at
http://www.finalexit.org/lawsnamerica.html
Background: this useful list was compiled by the judge in the George Exoo deportation case recently. Suggest you bookmark this page.
———Derek Humphry, Oregon
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(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – The majority of people in Mexico favour the basic principle of euthanasia, according to a poll by ParametrÃa. 59 per cent of respondents think doctors should have the legal right to end the life of a person suffering from an incurable illness upon a request by the patient and his or her relatives, while 35 per cent disagree.
On Apr. 22, the Mexican Senate voted 70-0 in favour of legalizing passive euthanasia. This concept allows doctors to withdraw life-sustaining medication from patients, but not to, for instance, administer poisons. Assisted suicide or active euthanasia occurs when an individual who is not physically capable of ending his or her own life requests the help of a physician to do so.
The Mexican bill calls for legalizing passive euthanasia when the patient is in palliative care and has been given less than six months to live. Doctors have to act with consent Continue Reading »
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CLARIFICATIONS
Helping the Washington State initiative planned for this November………………
The aim is to introduce a law by citizens’ ballot initiative similar to Oregon’s ten year old physician-assisted dying law. The PAC running the campaign (formerly called It’s My Decision) is now called Yes! on I-1000, www.yeson1000.org
Running the campaign is a coalition of right to die groups (Compassion and Choices of Washington: C&C National, the Death With Dignity National Center, and ex-governor Booth Gardner.) The coalition is called the WA Death With Dignity Coalition.
The best way to help the campaign is to either make direct (nondeductible) donations, by sending checks to:
YES! on I-1000,
PO Box 21984, Seattle, WA 98111
Or go to the website, www.yeson1000.org, click on the “donate” button, and make a donation online.
——-Derek Humphry, ERGO 5.1.08
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I would like to clarify the earlier response to a question raised by Alida Westman in regard to the state of Washington I-1000 ballot initiative. First, as an organization Hemlock still exists. The name is
owned and registered under a federal trademark by Compassion & Choices.
Although “Hemlock” is no longer the overreaching name of the organization, it is still actively used as part of Compassion & Choices’ educational arm.
Second, Compassion & Choices is working closely in concert with “It’s My Decision.” The latter is engaged in securing the
roughly 225,000 signatures that are needed to get the initiative on the
November ballot, while the former is working on a public education campaign to raise awareness of Oregon’s ten years of success and how similar results can be expected if Washington were to pass its own law.
Both organizations are raising funds for their respective roles in the
initiative so, to answer Alida’s question, the appeal is “for real.”
–Roland L. Halpern, Director Community Relations
Compassion & Choices
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A terminally ill man who was about to be helped to die via physician-assisted suicide under Oregon’s Death With Dignity law, offered those who were there to help him the information that he had twice voted against the law when it was a ballot initiative in l994 and l997.
But now that he needed assisted dying he had changed his mind.
(Under this law a doctor may prescribe a lethal oral overdose for a dying adult — residents only — who requested it 14 days previously.)
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