Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on May 8th, 2008
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - The majority of people in Mexico favour the basic principle of euthanasia, according to a poll by Parametría. 59 per cent of respondents think doctors should have the legal right to end the life of a person suffering from an incurable illness upon a request by the patient and his […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Mar 24th, 2008
The hardcopy paperback ‘Final Exit’ 3rd edition by Derek Humphry touched the 5,061 mark in Amazon.com’s sales listing today.
You can download an even more up-to-date digitized edition at www.finalexit.org/ergo-store
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death on Mar 15th, 2008
This week “Jean’s Way” appeared bookstores in Turkey in a
translation. Next month it will also appear in Mexico for the first time.
It tells the story of my assisted suicide of my first wife, Jean, who
had late-stage terminal cancer.
Starting in London, this month ‘Jean’s Way’ has been in continuous print
in English for 30 […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Feb 27th, 2008
I’m the author of a new novel titled SOUVENIR,
which is out now from Random House/Ballantine Books.
My novel, which centers on a woman who has ALS, in not any kind of how-to, position on the matter of terminally ill individuals’ right to end their
lives on their own terms.
info at
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345499684
My interest in the […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Jan 28th, 2008
There were 69 comments about the article in Friday’s London Daily Mail (01/25/08) reporting on an elderly, sick couple in York who took their lives together. At the inquest, the coroner blamed the book ‘Final Exit’ and said it was ’shameless.’ All but 2-3 comments of the 69 people who responded to […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, death, right to die on Dec 26th, 2007
Regarding Page 140 of the book ‘Final Exit’ concerning the Exit Bag, better known nowadays as the ‘helium hood kit’: The ordering detail no longer applies.
Last Rights Publications in Canada ceased in 2004 due to police harassment. Usually people who send there get their money back – eventually – because the […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, death, right to die on Dec 9th, 2007
The Vancouver Sun reported on 8 Dec 07 that the helium in an ‘exit bag’ is new choice for assisted suicide for patients who are dying or suffering from an end-stage incurable illness.
Criminologist Russel Ogden said that at least 19 people
in B.C. have committed suicide by using helium since 1999, according to
statistics compiled […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, death, right to die on Dec 3rd, 2007
If one purchases a helium pack for future rather than immediate use, I
should think it would be important to know what the shelf life of the
helium in the tanks is. Perhaps one would be advised instead to wait and
buy a pack when the need is more immediate.
However, with increasing awareness by […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, death, right to die on Dec 1st, 2007
QUESTION: Following up on the recent post about using panettone bags, I remembered
that some time ago there was discussion about which kind of helium tank
to buy; one was not advised due to a problem in the delivery, whereas
the other was all right.
Would someone kindly remind me how to identify the satisfactory one (I
think the color […]
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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 […]
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