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Liberty and Death: A manifesto

Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Blogroll, Dead, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 23rd, 2009

Liberty and Death A manifesto concerning an individual’s right to choose to die In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty –- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing. Whereas […]

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Terminal sedation in Holland more used than euthanasia

Posted in Assisted Suicide, death, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 21st, 2008

Terminally-ill patients in the Netherlands increasingly receive drugs to render them unconscious until death, according to a study that suggests people are substituting deep sedation for legal euthanasia. The researchers found that 1,800 people — 7.1 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2005 — were drugged into so-called continuous deep sedation shortly before […]

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