Weblog of Derek Humphry, Founder of Hemlock Society
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Jun 14th, 2009
Defense fund started for the 7 workers of the Final Exit Network who were present when people took their lives to escape further suffering.
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on May 1st, 2009
There is a significant and fascinating article in the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ of 1 May which is a lengthy article that begins…
A year ago, when a doctor finally diagnosed the brain disease that had been making it harder for her to walk without falling, Rona Zelniker told her son and daughter that she was going to [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Books, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, Uncategorized, death on Feb 16th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, Schiavo, death on Feb 11th, 2009
The controversy over the right to die of Eluana Englaro is really a battle over religious beliefs and secondarily about the law of Italy.
This case is being used as a football in a struggle for moral power by the Vatican over the rules of life and death.
All over the world, people nowadays want the individual [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, People in the News, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Jan 21st, 2009
For me, one of the most remarkable sentences in Barack Obama’s splendid inauguration speech on 20 Jan 09 was this:
“For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus – and non-believers.”
It is the first time I’ve ever noticed a religious [...]
Posted in Final Exit, Mercy Killing, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Apr 14th, 2008
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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