Weblog of Derek Humphry, Founder of Hemlock Society
Posted in Assisted dying, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, Technology, Uncategorized, right to die on Aug 3rd, 2008
A lengthy legal battle in Italy is set to continue for a man campaigning to remove life support from his daughter who has been in a coma for 16 years. State prosecutors in Milan have sought an in junction against a July 9 ruling by an appeals court in the city allowing for the removal [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), Technology, Uncategorized, death, right to die on Jul 24th, 2008
Derek Humphry, journalist and author, founder of the Hemlock Society USA, has written a memoir of his life in England during World War 11, his career in journalism on the London Sunday Times and the Los Angeles Times, and how he came to launch Hemlock. Author of five books on euthanasia, this is [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, right to die on Jul 7th, 2008
The Swiss Cabinet is set to clarify whether the rules for Switzerland’s assisted suicide organisations need to be updated.
In particular, it will look at issues relating to the care, counselling and documentation that euthanasia groups provide people seeking to end their lives. It will also discuss whether groups should be permitted to help healthy [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, death on Mar 21st, 2008
Terminally-ill patients in the Netherlands increasingly receive drugs to render them unconscious until death,
according to a study that suggests people are substituting deep sedation for legal euthanasia.
The researchers found that 1,800 people — 7.1 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2005 — were drugged into so-called continuous deep sedation shortly before dying. This [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, death, right to die on Dec 26th, 2007
Regarding Page 140 of the book ‘Final Exit’ concerning the Exit Bag, better known nowadays as the ‘helium hood kit’: The ordering detail no longer applies.
Last Rights Publications in Canada ceased in 2004 due to police harassment. Usually people who send there get their money back – eventually – because the [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, death, right to die on Dec 16th, 2007
For general information:
Asphyxial Suicide by Inhalation of Helium Inside a Plastic Bag.
Case Report
American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology. 28(4):364-367,
December 2007.
Schon, Corinna Ariane MD; Ketterer, Thomas MD
Abstract: Asphyxial suicide by placing a plastic bag over the head, especially in
combination with inhalation of gases, is a rarely described method of committing suicide. This article reports a [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Blogroll, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, right to die on Dec 4th, 2007
So many viewers of this blog have been asking about the shelf-life
of helium in small tanks. Here’s a compendium of the replies so far
received. The answer seems to be that provided that the taps are kept
tightly shut up until the moment of use, never tampered with, they can
be stored for many years, until [...]
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