Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, Suicide (rational), right to die on Feb 2nd, 2010
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 [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Jan 6th, 2010
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 [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Living Will, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Aug 22nd, 2009
You can view a list of my books, from l972 through 2008, at this Amazon site:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B000AQ1V2K
Also, my memoir “Good Life, Good Death”
is now on Kindle or at the ERGO Bookstore
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Apr 29th, 2009
Take a look at the interesting YouTube video by the Final Exit Network team athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z1evoiPMHA
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Dec 13th, 2008
Take a look at this elegant web site by French choice-in-dying activist Jacqueline Jencquel, which is full — in two languages — of news, plus sharp pictures which load quickly.
http://www.jacquelinejencquel.com
—Derek Humphry 12/13/08
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It is well to be aware that there are persons in America who troll this blog and my ERGO Listserv looking for people in distress, and then approach them and offer to help them to die for a price.
Hard evidence of this emerged in a recent television documentary, ‘Reverend Death’, distributed by Channel 4 [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Dead, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized, death, right to die on May 21st, 2008
Good Life, Good Death (eBook PDF)
Memoir of how a writer became an euthanasia advocate
by Derek Humphry
Founder of the Hemlock Society (1980-2003)
Author of Final Exit
NEW! Published May 21, 2008
$12.00 (PDF eBook) • 2008
Not available in paperback
321 pages • 19 chapters with photos
http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store
ISBN 978-0-9768283-3-4
Born in England, brought up in a broken family during six years of war, [...]
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Posted in Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on May 19th, 2008
Re tv program “Reverend Death” on Channel 4, UK, tonight Monday, May 19, at 10 pm
Two clips from the film are already on the Channel 4 web site:
http://www.channel4.com/video/reverend-death/series-1/.
The video is best seen with Internet Explorer
Clip #2 tells how Exoo and Thomas were going to become “assisted suicidemartyrs” if they felt they would be arrested [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on May 13th, 2008
Chronology of Right-to-Die Events During the 20th Century and into the Millenium, 1906 – 2008
This chronology has been revised and updated and well worth a look, and a bookmark, for future reference. Visit
http://www.finalexit.org/more.html
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Posted in Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized, death, right to die on Apr 10th, 2008
Two weeks ago the leader of the right to life movement in Oregon attacked in the Register-Guard (Eugene) the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, which permits physician-assisted suicide, on the grounds that in 2007 not a single patient who wanted a hastened death had been sent for psychological evaluation. The law [...]
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