A woman has been charged with importing a euthanasia drug from Mexico into Australia. Two bottles of the border-controlled drug Nembutal were intercepted at Melbourne Airport last March.
Australian Federal Police officers executed a search warrant on an address in the eastern suburb of Canterbury on April 15, 2009 but the woman was not charged on summons until last week.
The Canterbury woman, aged 61, is due to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court. The maximum penalty for this offense is 25 years’ jail or a $550,000 fine.
Tags: assisted death, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, euthanasia and assisted death, Mexico, Nembutal, terminal illness
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Among the nominations for Oscars in the short documentary category announced in Hollywood today is
– “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner,” from Just Media, which is a portrait of the former governor of the state of Washington who led a campaign on behalf of the state’s Death with Dignity Act, which permits assisted suicide.
The 82nd Academy Awards will be held March 7 at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.
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An elderly couple unable to bear living apart committed suicide by drinking cyanide from tea cups at their dining room table, an inquest in the UK heard.
Retired physicist Arthur Prior, 90, probably brewed the deadly poison himself in a lab in the basement.
He sat down with his wife of 60 years, Mary, 87, and they held hands as they sipped from the cups together, after writing suicide notes to their four children.
Neighbours said that the couple were ‘inseparable’ and could not face spending their last days apart.
Tags: cyanide, double suicide, elderly suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, self-delivance
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Martin Amis, the British novelist, has called for euthanasia booths in every street corner for pensioners to end their lives.
Britain is facing a demographic timebomb as its ageing population places an impossible burden on society, the controversial writer claimed.
Anti-euthanasia campaigners reacted with horror to the call for ‘death booths’ for pensioners and branded Amis ‘repugnant and offensive’.
The 60-year-old novelist predicted Britain could be engulfed by a ‘civil war’ between the old and young if it did not tackle its ageing population.
‘How is society going to support this silver tsunami?’ he asked in an interview with the Sunday Times.
‘There’ll be a population of demented very old people, like an invasion of terrible immigrants, stinking out the restaurants and cafes and shops.
‘I can imagine a sort of civil war between the old and the young in 10 or 15 years’ time.’ The grandfather added: ‘There should be a booth on every corner where you could get a martini and a medal.’
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ERGO would like to draw your attention to a music track due to be released by the hard rock band Fear Factory, titled ‘Final Exit’.
Quietly voiced at the very beginning of the song are the words “Final Exit – The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying”, the exact title of my book available at ERGO Store.
The lyrics follow:
There is no compassion as life fades away
This self deliverance the choice you have made
Contemplate your last breath
As you see the face of death
Contemplate your last breath
Breath, slowly breath
Goodbye
The pain in your life I cannot perceive
Crimes of humanity I see and believe
Contemplate your last breath
As you see the face of death
Contemplate your last breath
Breath, slowly breath
Goodbye
Like the knife that cuts through me
Stabbing uncertainty
It bleeds my life I know
Draining my heart my soul…
Contemplate your last breath
Breath, slowly breath
Goodbye
Goodbye
New Fear Factory Album title: MECHANIZE
European release date: 02.05.10 via AFM Records
U.S. release date: 02.09.10 via CandleLight Records.
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The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday (12.31.09) that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure.
Patients and doctors had been waiting for the state’s high court to step in after a lower court decided a year ago that constitutional rights to privacy and dignity protect the right to die.
The Montana Supreme Court opinion will now give doctors in the state the freedom to prescribe the necessary drugs to mentally competent, terminally ill patients without fear of being prosecuted, advocates said.
Tags: Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity, Dr. Kevorkian, Euthanasia, euthanasia laws, Final Exit, Hemlock, Montana, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, terminal illness
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ERGO’s death with dignity news digest list is available to you. So if you have a serious and enduring interest in this subject, consider subscribing to ERGO’s emailing list. (No charges.) Exchange news and views on a wide range of right-to-die topics. Only subscribe if you in principle support the right of a competent adult to choose to die when physical suffering is unbearable. CLICK or copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://www.lists.opn.org/mailman/listinfo/right-to-die_lists.opn.org
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For an update on the legal position of the 8 volunteers of the Final Exit Network facing prosecutions in Georgia and Arizona read the December 09 issue, just out, of the Final Exit Network’s newsletter on the web at this link
http://www.finalexitnetwork.org/Newsletters-12-09-on/Final_Exit_Newsletter_Vol_6_No_1-3%20for%20Web.pdf
Tags: Death With Dignity, Derek Humphry, Final Exit Network, right to die, self-delivance, terminal illness
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A recent posting warned that not all preparations of veterinary pentobarbital (“Nembutal”) have the same concentration. In order for a 100-ml bottle to have 6 grams of pentobarbital, the concentration of the drug needs to be 60 milligrams (mg) per millilitre (ml), so read the fine print on the label. Two bottles are needed for quick, certain self-deliverance from a terminal or hopeless illness. One is risky.
Tags: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, humphry, Nembutal, pentobarbital, veterinary Nembutal
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The Mystery of the Canadian “dignityindeath.com” Park Bench Plaques Solved!
By Richard N. Cote
In November 2009, memorial plaques dedicated to the lives of three people who had died distressing deaths from terminal illnesses started to appear on park benches in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The sponsor of the plaques was “dignityindeath.com,” a group I had never heard of. After contacting leaders of major pro- and anti-euthanasia groups for information about the group, I found that no one else had ever heard of them, either. Hmmm. A mystery!
Their website is both elegant and restrained in its graphic design. However its home page consists solely of a statement of belief in the right to die as a personal choice and civil right. From there, links take the reader to other sites describing living wills and right-to-die groups. Period. The site does not solicit memberships or money. No officers or staff are listed, and the Continue Reading »
Tags: aid in dying, assisted death, choice in dying, Death With Dignity, euthanasia and assisted death, Final Exit Network, Living Wills, Park bench plaques
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