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, exit bag, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Nembutal, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jun 9th, 2022
Consider the end. Read the best literature on the subject of a peaceful, self-chosen death when at life’s end. http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Good Death, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, RTD Organizations, Switzerland on May 18th, 2022
If you wish to know which USA states have lawful medical aid in dying (MAiD}, and their different requirements, Death with Dignity National Center’s State Statute Navigator is the place to go. It is a a complete, searchable database of currently enacted Death with Dignity laws https://deathwithdignity.org/resources/state-statute-nav= igator/
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News on May 9th, 2022
Governor Phil Scott has signed S.74 into law, amending Vermont’s medical-aid-in-dying statute. Advocates for the changes said this would make the medical-aid-in-dying process more accessible for terminally ill Vermonters. Vermont’s medical-aid-in-dying law has been in effect since 2013. It set up a multi-step process to request a life-ending prescription for any patient with a prognosis […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Elder suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, Suicide (rational) on Apr 20th, 2022
U.K. lacks aid in dying laws -more suicides People with severe and potentially terminal health conditions are more than twice as likely to take their own lives than the general population, new data from the British Office for National Statistics (ONS) published today ( 20 April 2022) has indicated. The ONS examined suicide rates among […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, right to die on Apr 4th, 2022
The Oregon Death with Dignity Act (DWDA), passed by referendum in 1998, allows terminally ill Oregonians who meet specific qualifications to end their lives through voluntary self-administration of a lethal dose of medications prescribed by a physician for that purpose. In 2021, 383 people were reported to have received prescriptions under the DWDA. As of […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, People in the News, Philip Nitschke MD, physician-assisted suicide, Suicide (rational), Switzerland on Mar 29th, 2022
Sisters Lila Ammouri and Susan Frazier decided to end their lives at a Swiss assisted dying clinic after becoming “tired of life”, according to an advocate who was advising them. Dr Ammouri, a palliative care doctor aged 54, and Ms Frazier, 49, had been suffering from medical “frustrations” such as chronic insomnia, vertigo and back […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Mar 29th, 2022
Oregon will no longer require people to be residents of the state to use its law allowing terminally ill people to receive lethal medication, after a lawsuit challenged the requirement as unconstitutional. In a settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Portland on 03/28/22, the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Medical Board agreed […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), Switzerland on Mar 27th, 2022
Sisters Lila Ammouri 54, and Susan Frazier 49, from Arizona, US travelled to Basel Switzerland and died at the Pegasos clinic in Liestal on February 11, 2022. The sisters were members of Exit International, having joined the organization in October 2020. They subsequently joined Pegasos in March 2021. They sought information from Exit on ending their […]
Posted in Books, Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Hemlock, Jean's Way, right to die on Mar 19th, 2022
Low cost, quality reading Two books from Derek Humphry have now become available cheaply on KINDLE My memoir ‘Good Life, Good Death’ can be read on KINDLE for $$1.99. (It was $33.00) https://www.amazon.com/Good-Life-Death-Memoir-Pioneer-ebook/dp/B01N2HPTMJ Also, my 1948 memoir ‘Jean’s Way’ is on Kindle for $6. People tell me that both books are quick and easy reads. […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News on Mar 16th, 2022
If interested in the debate over whether medical assisted dying should be extended beyond the only terminal adult, this long article in the Colorado Sun of 14 March is well worth reading: Denver doctor helped patients with severe anorexia obtain aid-in-dying medication, spurring national ethics debate A recent case study shocked psychiatrists across the country […]
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