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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I would like to clarify the earlier response to a question raised by Alida Westman in regard to the state of Washington I-1000 ballot initiative. First, as an organization Hemlock still exists. The name is
owned and registered under a federal trademark by Compassion & Choices.
Although “Hemlock” is no longer the overreaching name of the organization, […]
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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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A German lawyer and politician has unveiled Europe’s first suicide machine for people with a death wish as “an act of Christian love”. The machine that can be rented and is then collected to be re-used by other clients kills painlessly at the push of a button.
It was unveiled by Dr Roger Kusch, 53, […]
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Posted in Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, 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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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 Blogroll, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, death, right to die on Mar 18th, 2008
The New York Times health section carried this article on 18 March 08:
Terminal Options for the Irreversibly Ill, By JANE E. BRODY
My Feb. 5 column, “A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit,” prompted a deluge of information and requests for information on how people too sick to reap meaningful pleasure from life might […]
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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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Edited extract from the December 07 newsletter of the Japan Society for
Dying With Dignity:-
The membership of the Japan Society for Dying With Dignity stands at
121,319 as of December 6, 2007. Having surpassed the coveted 100,000
mark that was reached in December 2002, our society has continued to
steadily increase membership.
There are two major characteristics. The […]
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