Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Living Will, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Nov 18th, 2009
Time was when right-to-die groups were looked to for help exclusively by terminally ill, and sometimes hopelessly ill, persons. But nowadays with our greater public visibility, credibility and legislative progress, many mentally ill persons are approaching us expecting positive help.
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Dead, Euthanasia, People in the News, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Oct 30th, 2009
A single solid pill for a peaceful death has been developed by Exit International.
The pill that is made from a stable inert form of the barbiturate Nembutal has been developed for long term storage and transport. To use the pill to achieve a peaceful death, the pill is altered into the soluble active drug [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Dead, Euthanasia, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Oct 29th, 2009
Switzerland has announced plans to crack down on so-called ’suicide tourism’ by signalling that it might close the Dignitas clinic that has helped hundreds of terminally ill people to end their lives.
The plans, in the form of two draft Bills that will be offered for public debate, are likely to set off a rush [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), right to die on Oct 12th, 2009
How ‘right-to-die’ stands in 2009 –
Where voluntary euthanasia (VE) and/or physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is now legally permitted under guidelines
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Jun 26th, 2009
Dr. Peter Baumann (74) of Zurich has been sentenced to a 4 yr prison term for premeditated murder. This was reported in Swiss newspapers in recent days.
Dr. Baumann’s case goes back to 2001 when he was charged with having abetted, aided and assisted in the suicide of a 47 yr old patient, who it [...]
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A Dutch court sentenced the chairman of an assisted suicide lobby group on 29 May to 10 months in jail, eight suspended, for helping a sick, 80-year-old woman kill herself.
The woman died in November 2007 after taking a lethal dose of pentobarbital, which prosecutors said was supplied to her children by the lobbyist after doctors [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on May 7th, 2009
Some of us in America are fascinated by the British reaction to Dr. Philip Nitschke’s current tour of Britain. I write as a citizen of the UK and USA and a ‘right to die’ watcher for 30 years.
The British public is fed up with its government’s refusal to modify the laws on assisted suicide. [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Politics/Law, RTD News, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Apr 22nd, 2009
Two-thirds of nurses [in the UK] support the legalisation of assisted suicide, results of an Independent Nurse survey reveal.
Of 108 nurses who responded to the survey, 64 per cent said they thought assisted suicide should be legalised.
In addition, 67 per cent said that they thought that clinicians should be able to assist terminally ill patients [...]
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A 93-year-old Belgian woman has died after going on a 10-day hunger strike last month to force doctors to help her die, her family said.
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Mar 18th, 2009
Ted Goodwin, one of the four persons charged by Georgia police with assisting a suicide, told the Associated Press on 03.17.09:
“We believe that it is the right of every mentally competent adult to determine whether he or she is suffering,” Goodwin said. “We do not believe this should be left to the physicians, church leaders [...]
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