Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Apr 25th, 2008
I was contacted today by a person who said she was from Hemlock,
and they were raising funds for the Death with Dignity proposal
in Washington? I’ve been contacted by Washington directly also?
Is Hemlock doing this?? Is the appeal for real?
———–Alida Westman
BLOG MANAGER DEREK HUMPHRY RESPONDS:
Hemlock as a national organization no longer exists. Either
there was a misunderstanding […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Mar 27th, 2008
A severely disfigured French woman, found dead
this month after a court rejected her request for euthanasia, took a
lethal overdose of barbiturates, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
Former schoolteacher Chantal Sebire, 52, suffered from a rare and
incurable tumour which severely deformed her face and caused her to lose
the sense of smell, taste and finally her eyesight.
Her […]
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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, 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, 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, […]
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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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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Oct 27th, 2007
George David Exoo was a free man Friday for the first time in four months.
U.S. District Magistrate Judge Clarke VanDervort denied a request by the U.S. Attorney’s Office to extradite the former Beckley Unitarian minister to Ireland for his alleged role five years ago in assisting the suicide of a woman […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized, death, right to die on Oct 21st, 2007
The judge in the extradition hearing concerning the Rev. George David Exoo will give his decision this coming Friday. October 26, 2007
The hearing will be at the federal building in Charleston, West Virginia.
If the judge rules against Mr Exoo, he will be deported to Ireland to face criminal charges in Dublin alleging that […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, Euthanasia, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Oct 1st, 2007
The Associated Press reported:
Assisted suicide research criticized: professor replies
By William McCall, The Associated Press, October 1, 2007
PORTLAND - Doctor-assisted suicide in Oregon and The Netherlands does not result in more deaths among certain groups of terminally ill patients such as the poor or senior citizens, according to a controversial new study.
The […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Sep 28th, 2007
September 27, 2007
Dublin radio station 98FM wrote a new page in the history of Irish broadcasting. At 8:00 p.m., hosts Paul Connolly and Allison O’Reilly interviewed Derek Humphry, a distinguished journalist, founder of The Hemlock Society, and an international spokesman for the right-to-die movement. This episode of the call-in talk […]
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