Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance on Jan 6th, 2019
Veteran of 40 years involvement with the right-to-die movement, in the USA and worldwide, Sidney D. Rosoff died on 4 January 2019 at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 94. He was president of the Hemlock Society USA 1992-1995, previously chairman of the Society for the Right to Die, and […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Posted in Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Jean's Way, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death on Jul 20th, 2018
An old book with a lasting message A publisher in Finland – Oy Scanria Ab – recently purchased the translation rights of the book ‘Jean’s Way’ by Derek Humphry. This book, first published forty years ago in London, helped to launch the modern movement for assisted dying for the terminally ill by switching the discussion […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Brittany Maynard, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News on Jun 4th, 2018
A MEETING WORTH ATTENDING If you happen to be within easy reach of the pleasant Oregon seaside town of FLORENCE this coming Sunday (10 June), around lunchtime, you could pop into the local library and hear what changes need to be made to the OREGON DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT, which became law in 1998 I […]
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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 Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death, Suicide (rational) on Mar 7th, 2018
A great worker for a long time in the right-to-die movement, JIM CHASTAIN, brought his life to an end on his 92nd birthday. He wrote this note, which son emailed next day. Jim wrote: Quote: To paraphrase Bilbo Baggins – [Tolkien character] Today is my 92nd birthday. Alas, 92 is far too short a time […]
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