Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Living Will, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Nov 18th, 2009
Time was when right-to-die groups were looked to for help exclusively by terminally ill, and sometimes hopelessly ill, persons. But nowadays with our greater public visibility, credibility and legislative progress, many mentally ill persons are approaching us expecting positive help.
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Oct 29th, 2009
Switzerland has announced plans to crack down on so-called ‘suicide tourism’ by signalling that it might close the Dignitas clinic that has helped hundreds of terminally ill people to end their lives. The plans, in the form of two draft Bills that will be offered for public debate, are likely to set off a rush […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on May 16th, 2009
As regional coordinator of the Final Exit Network, I have had reports of members being harassed by local police in response to a directive by the Georgia State police. It seems the GSPD contacts the targeted State police (in one case NJ) , who in turn contacts local police departments, with the directive to visit […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance on May 15th, 2009
Police Use Totalitarian Tactics to Shut Down Non-Profit — press release May 15, 2009 PHOENIX, Ariz. – Three more senior citizen volunteers from Final Exit Network, Inc., an organization of right-to-die activists, have been indicted in a widening effort by a small handful of local authorities to shut down the nationwide not-for-profit corporation’s advocacy program. […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 27th, 2008
A severely disfigured French woman, found dead this month after a court rejected her request for euthanasia, took a lethal overdose of barbiturates, a prosecutor said on Thursday. Former schoolteacher Chantal Sebire, 52, suffered from a rare and incurable tumour which severely deformed her face and caused her to lose the sense of smell, taste […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 24th, 2008
The hardcopy paperback ‘Final Exit’ 3rd edition by Derek Humphry touched the 5,061 mark in Amazon.com’s sales listing today. You can download an even more up-to-date digitized edition at www.finalexit.org/ergo-store
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 20th, 2008
The simultaneous deaths of the writer Hugo Claus in Belgium and Chantal Sébire in France are a demonstration that our goal is not the choice between life and death,but between 2 different ways of dying. Hugo Claus was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and decided to leave on his own terms at the moment he chose and […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 15th, 2008
This week “Jean’s Way” appeared bookstores in Turkey in a translation. Next month it will also appear in Mexico for the first time. It tells the story of my assisted suicide of my first wife, Jean, who had late-stage terminal cancer. Starting in London, this month ‘Jean’s Way’ has been in continuous print in English […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 27th, 2008
I’m the author of a new novel titled SOUVENIR, which is out now from Random House/Ballantine Books. My novel, which centers on a woman who has ALS, in not any kind of how-to, position on the matter of terminally ill individuals’ right to end their lives on their own terms. info at http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345499684 My interest […]
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The question is often raised as to why Oregon is the only state in the USA to pass a law (Death With Dignity Act, 1994) allowing physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Part of the answer lies in that fewer Oregonians go to church, and this is again confirmed. A study released Monday by the […]
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