Weblog of Derek Humphry, Founder of Hemlock Society
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, RTD News, RTD Organizations, right to die on Nov 30th, 2007
Shirley Carroll O’Connor, who was the very first person
to join the Hemlock Society when it was formed on
12 August 1980, has just celebrated her 90th birthday.
She is still a volunteer worker for Compassion and Choices.
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Nov 25th, 2007
Last week a prominent Canadian television company showed a program on the Dignitas organization in Switzerland. As this station also reaches many viewers in the USA, it has aroused a lot of interest and inquiries, so we are repeating this informational message about Dignitas.
PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE FOR THE TERMINALLY OR
HOPELESSLY ILL, [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Nov 20th, 2007
It might be wise, if a person is contemplating using the ‘helium hood method’ for self-deliverance from an unbearable terminal illness one day in the future, to purchase two tanks now.
Helium is becoming in short supply, partly because of increased worldwide demand, and its more frequent use by industry. For [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Nov 11th, 2007
Karen Stern’s Final Exit
October 29, 2007, Kingman, Arizona
By Richard N. Côté / dickcote at earthlink.net
Karen Stern, a vivacious 53-year-old,
guitar-playing singer and writer of loopy,
infectiously funny songs, died on the morning of
October 29, 2007, in a motel in Kingman, Arizona.
She had informed the front desk clerk about 7:00
a.m. that she would be checking out that day.
When [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Nov 2nd, 2007
It has always been tacitly assumed in the Netherlands that old people and/or severely ill people could only expedite their own death with the assistance of a physician. (In 2002 the Dutch passed laws permitted voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.)
Recently, however, psychiatrist Boudewijn Chabot defended his Ph.D. thesis “Auto-Euthanasia “ in which he calculates that [...]
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