Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Dec 7th, 2011
End-of-year appeal by ERGO I know everybody is currently asking you for money, and these are difficult times, but if you care about the right to choose to die please think of ERGO (Euthanasia Research & Guidance Org) in your gift-giving this month. We are a tiny organization but still have weighty outgoings concerning technical […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Nov 19th, 2011
RIGHT-TO-DIE PROGRESS IN THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY Various forms of medically assisted dying and/or assisted suicide for the terminally or hopelessly ill competent adult have been approved by 2011 in the following eleven states and nations. Each has its own rules and guidelines. All but Switzerland and Colombia forbid foreigners coming for this type […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Nov 8th, 2011
Lawyers for the Final Exit Network argued before the state Supreme Court on Monday that Georgia’s assisted suicide law is “irrational” because it allows someone to assist in a suicide but not to publicly advertise or offer that help, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. But Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit District Attorney Penny Penn argued that the law […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational) on Nov 6th, 2011
QUIETLY, GEORGIA BECOMES FOURTH STATE TO LEGALIZE PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE By Robert Rivas, General Counsel, Final Exit Network, Tallahassee, Florida ATLANTA, Georgia — Without fanfare, Georgia has become the fourth state in the United States to legalize physician-assisted suicide, the attorney general of Georgia disclosed in a brief before the Supreme Court of Georgia. Until now, […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, GLADD, Hemlock, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance on Oct 11th, 2011
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Derek Humphry, founder of the original Hemlock Society USA in l980, was the keynote speaker at the 2011 annual meeting of Compassion and Choices of Washington state on Saturday, October 22. A journalist and author, Humphry is well known as the author of the bestselling books ‘Jean’s Way’ and ‘Final Exit’. There were […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Sep 9th, 2011
A new position paper just published by the Dutch Physicians Association (KNMG) says unbearable and lasting suffering should not be the only criteria physicians consider when a patient requests euthanasia. The KNMG says the new guidelines will clarify the responsibilities, possibilities and limitations that physicians have within the regulations of the 2002 euthanasia law (Termination […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Dignitas, Final Exit, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jun 29th, 2011
The Swiss government has dropped a plan to impose stricter rules for assisted suicide. Switzerland has long permitted “passive assisted suicide,†where someone can give another person the means to kill themselves provided the helper doesn’t personally benefit from the death. The government said Wednesday that existing laws provide enough safeguards to prevent abuse without […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Jun 13th, 2011
The FBI is asking police throughout America to check up on people who have recently ordered helium hood kits from GLADD in southern California, run by Sharlotte Hydorn. So far we know of six cases. These are what the cops call ‘wellness checks’ — actually to see if the person has [or about to] kill […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 7th, 2011
The attempt by a few right-wingers to make everybody who uses the Oregon Death With Dignity Act for physician-assisted suicide take a mental health check first, has collapsed. The Eugene Register-Guard newspaper reports 7 April 2011, when surveying the present legislature’s work: “Some divisive bills don’t even make it to the public hearing stage. House […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Apr 6th, 2011
PRESS RELEASE Last Wish Granted, the Colombian organization that has been quietly referring their members in Colombia to physicians for end of life consultations, has accepted their first international member for a medical referral. Last Wish Granted follows the guidelines put in place by the Constitutional Court of Colombia’s C-239-97 decision which disallows criminal penalties […]
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