Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jul 29th, 2010
Police struggle to convict Final Exit Network volunteers Insufficient evidence and legal ambiguities slow cases By Derek Humphry It has been known for some two years that the FBI and law enforcement in Georgia and Arizona are hunting for cases of felonious assisted suicide so that they can bring additional evidence to back up the […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jun 28th, 2010
ERGO now has a website where librarians can order their free copy of ‘Final Exit’
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jun 23rd, 2010
Sometimes doctors in America will prescribe a fast-acting barbiturate like Nembutal and Seconal for an end-stage terminal patient. Then these patients often have difficulty finding a pharmacist who will fill the script. Pharmacists frequently claim that they are no longer manufactured so that they don’t have to take the risk of being connected to a […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jun 16th, 2010
For a story and picture about the roadside billboards of the Final Exit Network in this week’s TIME magazine, go to http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/16/roadside-controversy-looms-with-right-to-die-billboards/
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In Connecticut, a Superior Court judge has rejected a request from two doctors who sought to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill, mentally competent patients who asked for help to die peacefully. In dismissing the doctors’ case, Judge Julia Aurigemma wrote that a state law against assisting suicide applied to physicians helping dying patients end […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 14th, 2010
Final Exit 3rd edition 2010 Updated in paperback and eBook PDF format (‘Digital Edition’) Announcing the new updated printing of ‘Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying’ by Derek Humphry. Now in print for its 20th year, this volume remains the gold standard for choice in dying books. Final Exit […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Apr 25th, 2010
FILM REVIEW by Richard Cote “YOU DON’T KNOW JACK†In “You Don’t Know Jack,†Dr. Jack Kevorkian (played by Al Pacino), a made-for-television HBO movie, was broadcast in the U.S. on April 24. Its story opens when the unemployed Michigan pathologist, age 60, had found his new calling: hastening the death of patients suffering from […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 22nd, 2010
Canada’s House of Commons has rejected a Bloc Québécois MP’s legislation to permit assisted suicide under strict conditions. Bill C-384 was defeated Wednesday afternoon on second reading by a 228-59 margin. The bill would have allowed doctors to avoid murder and manslaughter charges for helping terminally ill people or those in severe chronic pain to […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 12th, 2010
U P D A T E THE POSIBILITY OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE FOR THE TERMINALLY OR HOPELESSLY ILL, COMPETENT, ADULT PERSON IN SWITZERLAND Issued by ERGO for information only Physician-assisted suicide is legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Colombia, Albania, Switzerland, and the US states of Washington, Montana and Oregon. All have their own criteria. Except […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Living Will, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 8th, 2010
Go to this link to see an announcement of an interesting new book which deals with hastened death by choice and its impact on the whole family. ‘Imperfect Endings: A daughter’s tale of life and death’ by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter. Worth reading. Copy and paste this URL to see the publisher’s blurb. http://books.simonandschuster.com/Imperfect-Endings/Zoe-FitzGerald-Carter/9781439148242
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