Weblog of Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit, serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults for 30 years
Posted in Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Mexico, Nembutal, right to die, Self-Deliverance on Jan 7th, 2019
This posting reinforces what I’ve said always: To obtain drugs for self-deliverance from unbearable illness from Mexico you have to go there. Not always possible of course. I repeat: mail orders for Nembutal from Mexico are nearly all scams. Comment: Name: Alberto B Purchasing Pisabental in Mexico Last month I went to Valladolid, that is […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Dec 18th, 2018
Assisted suicide used to be a taboo subject but now, as VARIETY magazine reports, it’s a plot in a forthcoming TV comedy series! Progress? ‘Veep’ Star Timothy Simons to Develop Assisted-Suicide Comedy at HBO By Joe Otterson Variety has learned that the “Veep†star is developing a half-hour comedy at the premium cabler HBO titled […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Final Exit, right to die, RTD News on Dec 14th, 2018
December 2018 Dear friends and subscribers, It is the time of the year that I ask you to please make a tax-deductible contribution to help ERGO continue with its work. What does ERGO do? (a) Manages the Right-to-Die Listserv, supplying news relevant to the death-with-dignity movement. The email news list currently has 3,400 subscribers, many […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Hemlock, Mexico, Nembutal, Philip Nitschke MD, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death on Nov 16th, 2018
DRUG SCAMMERS ARE IMPERSONATING US At any one time there are at least 40 web sites offering to sell the drug Nembutal without the need for a doctor’s prescription. None are known to be reliable. Not only are they fraudulent but sometimes pretend to be part of genuine right-to-die organization like ERGO or EXIT. The […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, degerative illness, Dutch euthanasia, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, physician-assisted suicide, right to die on Nov 9th, 2018
There is a world-wide debate about whether or not patients who are severely demented could be given doctor-assisted suicide (assisted dying). Perhaps this forthcoming court case will suggest answers. Dutch authorities are prosecuting a doctor for performing euthanasia on a patient in the first case of its kind since its legalization 16 years ago. The […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Oct 9th, 2018
Announcing the formation of “IM Euthanasia India” which will be dedicating its efforts to change the premise in the Indian legal system for a ‘Right to Live and Die with Dignity’. The first announcement through a 25-minutesvideo is already uploaded on the YouTube and with the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLJlRG2anI0&t=2s CONTACT PERSON: Sandeep Sahajpal, (IM – Euthanasia […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Final Exit, People in the News, RTD News, Sean Davison on Oct 4th, 2018
Many, like me, were shocked when the news came out of South Africa on 19 September that the President of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, Professor Sean Davison, had been arrested for the murder of his friend, 43-year old former doctor, Anrich Burger. Dr Burger became a quadriplegic after an accident in […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Execution (judicial), Final Exit, Hemlock, Nitrogen, physician-assisted suicide, RTD Organizations on Sep 27th, 2018
Here is huge example of how a book can be misused. They didn’t ask me, the author, for permission. Note that I’ve always opposed capital punishment….. —Current news story: Oklahoma is preparing to be the first state in the nation to execute inmates using gas. After all the mistakes and missteps in administering the death […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, physician-assisted suicide on Sep 23rd, 2018
Right-to-die activist Sean Davison, who appeared in court on a murder charge in Capetown, South Africa, on 19 Sept., is being investigated for more cases of assisted suicide. Davison is currently president of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies which has some 51 affiliates in 28 countries. Prosecutor Megan Blow asked the Cape […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on Sep 3rd, 2018
The State of Oklahoma has decided in future to use the inert gas nitrogen for judicial executions of condemned prisoners. It has not yet done so (09/2018). The Attorney-General commissioned an inquiry into the effectiveness of nitrogen from three academics at East Central University. In a report covering 300 pages sent to the Oklahamo Department […]
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