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Detailed polling in Washington State on physician-assisted suicide for the dying

Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on Nov 11th, 2008

For those who like to see actual, final polling figures in Washington State on November 4, 2008, here they are… The question to the electorate was this: “Initiative Measure 1000 concerns allowing certain terminally ill competent adults to obtain lethal prescriptions” Result: YES   1,599,797   (57.91 percent) NO    1,162,742   (42.09 percent) Total votes:  2,762,539 Of the […]

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The Right to Choose to Die — not yet in France

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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