Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Apr 3rd, 2011
Nan Maitland, a founder of a group supporting elderly suicide, has taken her life to avoid prolonged suffering in her old age. She suffered from severe arthritis. Maitland, born in 1926, used to live in Kent, where she brought up her three children before moving to London 40 years ago. She dispensed advice on suicide […]
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Germany’s medical community has liberalized its code on helping sick patients die, giving more freedom to individual doctors. The change reflects a growing acceptance of assisted suicide among German doctors. The German Medical Association has presented new guidelines for physician-assisted suicide, allowing greater leeway for doctors to rely on their own conscience when deciding whether […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, Suicide (rational) on Jan 31st, 2011
“How to Die in Oregon,†an intimate and poignant film about the impact of Oregon’s 1994 Death With Dignity Act, won the Grand Jury Prize in the U. S. Documentary Competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, one of the most prestigious awards that can be won by a non-fiction film anywhere in the world. […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jan 10th, 2011
By Derek Humphry By far the worst and most wrenching dilemma in the field of a person’s right to choose to die involves victims of Alzheimer’s Disease. Once the disease has got hold, are they ever able to make a decision about ending their life? Suicide is not a crime, but assistance in the act […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Dec 15th, 2010
The Mailonline in London reported 15 Dec 10: No charges in 20 assisted-suicide cases as public prosecution is accused of re-writing law By Steve Doughty The Director of Public Prosecutions [in England] has declined to bring charges against at least 20 people suspected of helping others to commit suicide, it was revealed yesterday. Keir Starmer […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Nov 19th, 2010
A maker of Darvon and Darvocet has agreed to take the products off the market because the drugs increase the risk for serious abnormal heart rhythms, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced. Darvon, which contains the active ingredient propoxyphene, has been on the U.S. market for more than 50 years and was developed by […]
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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 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, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Jun 1st, 2010
FEAR FACTORY’s latest radio single, “Final Exit”, made impact at hard rock/metal stations nationwide. The song is expected to follow the success of earlier singles “Powershifter” and “Fear Campaign”. Lyrically, “Final Exit” draws attention to the much criticized and sensitive issue of self-deliverance as introduced in the 1992 book** by Derek Humphry, founder of the […]
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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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