“Final Exit’, Derek Humphry‘s bestselling ‘how-to’ paperback book on voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, can now also be downloaded directly to a home computer, permanently stored as a pdf. file, and also one copy printed out. The value of storing it as an Adobe pdf file is that the index guide will take the reader instantly to any part of the book wanted for quick reference.
The ERGO Bookstore reports that 65 people around the world downloaded the book — 3rd edition — in its first two weeks. It is not a new edition of the book, but it has been updated and improved in many instances. For example, the Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care documents have been revised and made more clearly usable. Continue Reading »
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Australian euthanasia advocates have modified an ordinary coffee pot which they say will enable the terminally ill to concoct a banned suicide drug in their own kitchens.
A group of elderly coffee-pot chemists say they were able to make the so-called “peaceful pill” Nembutal by cooking the base materials in a pressurised pot on a kitchen stovetop.
In a video of the procedure, the seniors combined sodium metal with other ingredients in the pot and then heated it to the right temperature and pressure to create the drug. Continue Reading »
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Compassion & Choices of Oregon’s client, Lovelle Svart, continues to blaze new trails as an articulate spokesperson for individual choice at the end of life. You will recall that Lovelle is a 62 year old unique lady who is dying from lung cancer. She was one of the intervenors in the US Supreme Court case of Gonzales v. Oregon and was a former fact checker at the Oregonian.
Lovelle is telling her life and dying story by way of a series of online video interviews. After watching her you will see she is very comfortable talking about her dying process. She is also a well informed spokesperson for Oregon’s aid-in-dying law.
I urge you to go to the website and watch a bit of the series. Add your comments if you wish. Continue Reading »
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Euthanasia activist, The Rev. George Exoo, moved to new jail pending final extradition hearing
On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at 3:30 p.m., The Reverend George David Exoo was transported by federal marshals from the Southeastern Regional Jail, Beaver, West Virginia, to the South Central Regional Jail in Charleston, West Virginia, about a one-hour drive away.
Upon arrival, Exoo was put into a holding cell where he slept on the concrete floor of a holding cell until transferred to a standard cell ten hours later. In the Charleston jail, he will be held in protective custody until his extradition hearing, which will be held sometime in the next several weeks in Beckley, West Virginia. Continue Reading »
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The Register-Herald newspaper in Beckley, West Virginia, reported on 18 Aug 07:-
Exoo to remain jailed in extradition case
By Matthew Hill, Register-Herald Reporter
A U.S. District Court magistrate judge Friday refrained from issuing a ruling in what he described as a “simply extraordinary†extradition case — that of George Exoo, the former Beckley Unitarian minister sought by Irish authorities for his alleged assistance in the suicide of a woman in Ireland five years ago. Continue Reading »
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Rev. George Exoo’s Extradition Verdict Delayed;
Judge Deliberates Fine Points of International Extradition Law
Beckley, West Virginia, USA
Friday, August 17, 2007
After a lengthy presentation by lawyers prosecuting and defending The Reverend George David Exoo, a Unitarian minister, U.S. District Magistrate Judge R. Clarke VanDervort told all parties that it would take “at least two weeks†to review the complicated points of international law that he must consider before deciding whether Exoo will be extradited to Ireland. Whatever he decides will set a precedent, so he is paying extremely close attention to every facet of this complicated case. Continue Reading »
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The American supermarket tabloid the GLOBE in its 13 August issue, claims that the evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, who had advanced cancer, hastened her own end with heroin. The Globe’s lengthy story begins:-
Tammy Faye Suicide Mystery – Did She Deliberately Overdose?
THE tragic death of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner is shrouded in mystery — leading experts to suspect the spunky televangelist took her own life to end her suffering and the prolonged agony of her family. Tammy Faye died just hours after a dramatic farewell appearance on Larry King Live, and some people believe she orchestrated her own death with a drug overdose.
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You can see the report and make a comment at this site
http://www.globemagazine.com/story/54#comment_336
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George Exoo is in prison in West Virginia awaiting a hearing on August 17 in which the Irish police are seeking to extradite him to Dublin to face trial for allegedly assisting the suicide of Rosemary Toole in 2002. He has been refused bail.
George is having a very hard time in prison. He’s tiny, gay, educated, decent, well-manered and spoken, and he’s locked up in a den of thieves and thugs who mock him constantly. He’s 65 and the inmates are almost entirely 18-30.
George writes to me from his cell: “This is a brutal place, and there is absolutely nothing correctional about it. Throw out the norms of respectable society where virtually every person enters of abuses of drugs or alcohol. Throw out every norm of language so that every
sentence contains multiple use of f……s. Throw out every notion of private property so that there one must be on constant guard against theft. And you have jail.” Continue Reading »
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DIGNITAS in Switzerland has not at all the same view as those who say that right-to-die-movement should not support suicide.
If we admit what the Swiss Supreme Court has ruled on November 3, 2006, that the right to decide on moment and method of a person’s own death is a part of the Right to Self-Determination, guaranteed by Article 8 paragraph 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights, we should also admit that there are people who do want to end their lives from other reasons than illnesses or somatic pain.
But if we admit this fact, why shouldn’t we be able to say: I do not agree with your idea, and I would not act like you in the same situation, but – after that we have discussed together your idea and motives and after that I am persuaded that your decision has been well evaluated from your own point of view -, I do see no reason at all why we should not help you to have a risk-free and pain-free suicide. Continue Reading »
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The Golden Gate Bridge operators in San Francisco have put up a web site to invite comments on the placement of a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge: www.ggbsuicidebarrier.org
Some have commented that a suicide barrier should not be placed because, just as women have the right to decide if they should give birth, everyone has a right to decide when and where to die.
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