Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Canada assisted dying laws, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Aug 12th, 2018
To clear up wide misunderstandings about the scope of the medical assisted suicide in Canada, here are the basic rules according to law: For Canada (all provinces, including Québec): 241.2 (1) A person may receive medical assistance in dying only if they meet all of the following criteria: (a) they are eligible — or, but […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on May 17th, 2018
Looking for the FINAL EXIT NETWORK ? The Network offers education and exit guide services FREE to any member, no matter where they are located. Click here: www.finalexitnetwork.org The distinction: The F E Network took its name from Derek Humphry’s 1991 best-selling book ‘Final Exit’. Updatd 2018 edition obtainable at www.finalexit.org/ergo-store The two nonprofit organizations […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, Nembutal, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death on May 2nd, 2018
“Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-deliverance and Assisted Suicide” is currently ranked #18,282 out of over 8,000,000 books in Amazon’s catalog. In print since l991. Now in 3rd edition. 05.2.18 #18,282 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Books > Law > Estate Planning > Living Wills #1 in Books > Law > […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Living Will, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Mar 11th, 2018
This article in The Washington Post on 11 March 2018 is the opening gambit in an important campaign to make doctor-assisted-dying more widely available. I have always supported such changes:- In Oregon, pushing to give patients with degenerative diseases the right to die by Rob Kuznia, Washington Post LOS ANGELES — Shortly after she was […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Good Life, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, RTD News on Feb 23rd, 2018
Here’s something we did not know until now: Since the Dutch euthanasia law came into force in 2002, Dutch doctors have helped over 49,000 people to die through euthanasia or physician assisted suicide (PAS). Although euthanasia and PAS remain criminal acts in the Netherlands, doctors are not prosecuted if the due care criteria of the […]
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Posted in Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational), Switzerland on Jul 20th, 2017
Inaugural 2017 NuTech Prize It is with great pleasure that Exit International announces the establishment of a prize to be awarded to the most innovative use of technology to improve the means of providing a peaceful, elective and autonomous (DIY) death. The US$5000 prize will be awarded at the NuTech 2017 gathering in Toronto on […]
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Stuff.co.nz website reports 13 July 2017: Dodgy scam site uses Kiwi pro-euthanasia protest imagery to sell bogus suicide drugs Pro-euthanasia lobby group Exit International is warning its members off a scam website, based in the Ukraine, which is fleecing the elderly by selling the popular and costly suicide drug Nembutal, which never arrives. Those falling […]
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Books that started significant movements or new awareness in the 20th century: The well of loneliness, by Radcliffe Hall, 1928 (Lesbianism) Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson 1962 (Pollution) Unsafe at any speed, by Ralph Nader 1965 (vehicular safety) Situation Ethics: The New Morality, by Joseph Fletcher 1966 (Moral responsibility) And the band played on, by […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance on Feb 1st, 2017
Regarding the nomination by Trump of Supreme Court justice Gorsuch: The Washington Post article of 1 Feb.2017 contains a particularly interesting paragraph: “If his writing is any indication, Gorsuch seems to have been alarmed by the sudden proliferation in the mid-1990s and early-2000s of proposals seeking to legalize physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. He also cites […]
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Dutch euthanasia not for strangers Dutch law does not say one must be Dutch citizen. Where the core of the law implies a very good, intense relationship with the doctor that will comply with a request, it is considered to be practically impossible to travel to the Netherlands for one purpose (euthanasia) only. No doctor […]
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