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 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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CLARIFICATIONS
Helping the Washington State initiative planned for this November………………
The aim is to introduce a law by citizens’ ballot initiative similar to Oregon’s ten year old physician-assisted dying law. The PAC running the campaign (formerly called It’s My Decision) is now called Yes! on I-1000, www.yeson1000.org
Running the campaign is a coalition of right […]
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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, Euthanasia, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Apr 16th, 2008
The ultimate \’how-to\’ guide book
Available at www.finalexit.org/ergo store
In paperback or digital download
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Hillary Clinton told the editorial board of the Eugene Register-Guard
Q: What’s your attitude toward Oregon’s assisted suicide law?
A: I believe it’s within the province of the states to make that decision. I commend Oregon on this count, as well, because whether I agree with it or not or think it’s a good idea or not, […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Mar 20th, 2008
The simultaneous deaths of the writer Hugo Claus in Belgium and Chantal Sébire in France are a demonstration that our goal is not the choice between life and death,but between 2 different ways of dying.
Hugo Claus was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and decided to leave on his own terms at the moment he chose and before […]
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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, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Feb 8th, 2008
Press Release: New Zealand Veterinary Association
Supply of euthanasia drug professional suicide, says Veterinary
Association president
Dr Philip Nitschke’s suggestion that a person could obtain a dangerous
narcotic for human euthanasia from a veterinarian is a slur on the
integrity and professionalism of veterinarians, says NZ Veterinary
Association president John Maclachlan.
“It is both illegal and unethical for veterinarians to supply veterinary
products […]
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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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