Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 17th, 2010
Re Newsweek article on Dr Larry Egbert in which a lawyer said this “The idea of someone gagging to death in a helium-filled hood is “ghoulish and frightening,” says Kathryn Tucker, legislative director for Compassion & Choices. Which brought this response: I, as an Exit member since 2005, found that article very disturbing. I can […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on Mar 4th, 2010
Oregon physician-assisted suicide There were 59 people in 2009 who brought their lives to an end with physician-assisted dying under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, according to a report just issued by the state’s department of health. The previous year the figure was 60 hastened deaths. During 2009, 95 prescriptions for lethal medications were […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 3rd, 2010
This is an extract from a very interesting article in the March issue of ‘Atlanta’ magazine which is well worth reading. Extract: If the right-to-die movement has a bible, it would be a 220-page book first published in 1991 and now in its third edition. Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for […]
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A woman has been charged with importing a euthanasia drug from Mexico into Australia. Two bottles of the border-controlled drug Nembutal were intercepted at Melbourne Airport last March. Australian Federal Police officers executed a search warrant on an address in the eastern suburb of Canterbury on April 15, 2009 but the woman was not charged […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on Feb 2nd, 2010
Among the nominations for Oscars in the short documentary category announced in Hollywood today is — “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner,” from Just Media, which is a portrait of the former governor of the state of Washington who led a campaign on behalf of the state’s Death with Dignity Act, which permits assisted […]
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Martin Amis, the British novelist, has called for euthanasia booths in every street corner for pensioners to end their lives. Britain is facing a demographic timebomb as its ageing population places an impossible burden on society, the controversial writer claimed. Anti-euthanasia campaigners reacted with horror to the call for ‘death booths’ for pensioners and branded […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jan 6th, 2010
ERGO would like to draw your attention to a music track due to be released by the hard rock band Fear Factory, titled ‘Final Exit’. Quietly voiced at the very beginning of the song are the words “Final Exit – The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying”, the exact title of my […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Dec 31st, 2009
The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday (12.31.09) that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure. Patients and doctors had been waiting for the state’s high court to step in after a lower court decided a year ago that constitutional rights to privacy […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide on Dec 18th, 2009
ERGO’s death with dignity news digest list is available to you. So if you have a serious and enduring interest in this subject, consider subscribing to ERGO’s emailing list. (No charges.) Exchange news and views on a wide range of right-to-die topics. Only subscribe if you in principle support the right of a competent adult […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide on Dec 15th, 2009
A recent posting warned that not all preparations of veterinary pentobarbital (“Nembutal”) have the same concentration. In order for a 100-ml bottle to have 6 grams of pentobarbital, the concentration of the drug needs to be 60 milligrams (mg) per millilitre (ml), so read the fine print on the label. Two bottles are needed for […]
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