Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death on Mar 3rd, 2010
This is an extract from a very interesting article in the March issue of ‘Atlanta’ magazine which is well worth reading.
Extract:
If the right-to-die movement has a bible, it would be a 220-page book first published in 1991 and now in its third edition. Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
was [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Living Will, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, right to die on Dec 11th, 2009
It is not an attempt to start any kind of “organization” or to solicit any money for any reason. “It’s just a personal conviction of ours,” McKay said. We paid for it out of our own pockets.”
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Sep 26th, 2009
‘Final Exit’ was honored by the American Library Associations Top 100 List of Banned Books as one of the most frequently challenged books in America for 1990 – 1999. It came in at # 29.
Ten years later, it remains on the list of most commonly-challenged books in the United States, according to the A [...]
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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, Blogroll, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Mar 23rd, 2009
Liberty and Death
A manifesto concerning an individual’s right to choose to die
In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty –- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing.
Whereas modern medicine has [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Dead, 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 Mar 4th, 2009
Defense fund for the GEORGia FOUR accused of assisting a suicide can be seen at www.finalexitlibertyfund.org
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Statement by the Board of the Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO)
ERGO is surprised and shocked by the arrests on 25 February 2009 of four members of the Final Exit Network for alleged assisted suicide. It is even more surprising that charges under the Rico laws for racketeering are involved. The Network is a membership [...]
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The Manchester Evening News UK reported on 16 Feb 09:
Coroner calls for ban on suicide manual
Exclusive: John Scheerhout and Stan Miller
A CORONER has called for a ban a suicide manual used by a Manchester club boss to kill himself. Nigel Meadows has written to the Home Secretary expressing concern about the book.
He called for ministers [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Final Exit, Hemlock, Opinion Pieces, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, death, right to die on Jan 17th, 2009
Following Australia’s censorship ban on anything to do with euthanasia or assisted suicide appearing on the internet, I guessed that it was only a matter of time before a similar clamp-down would be tried elsewhere. Britain now appears to be the next target of the extreme right wingers. Prime Minister Brown has also spoken out [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Jan 2nd, 2009
Information for terminally ill or hopelessly physically ill, competent adults
‘Last Rights Publications’ in Canada went out of business some time ago, just after the 3rd edition of Final Exit was published. So ignore the information at the bottom of page 140 of my book about where to buy the helium hood kit. [...]
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