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Tag Archive 'Death With Dignity'

You may care to look at my documents on the new internet publishing system called ‘Scribd’. A Living Will, history of Hemlock, student’s briefing, and so on. All free! Go to
http://www.scribd.com/FinalExit

—–Derek Humphry, Oregon

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Defense fund started for the 7 workers of the Final Exit Network who were present when people took their lives to escape further suffering.

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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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On January 9, former Governor Booth Gardner filed the Washington State
Death with Dignity Initiative with the Secretary of State. It is a
replica of the successful and court-tested Oregon law. Joining Governor
Gardner were Washington nurses, physicians, clergy, patient advocates,
and family members who have faced difficult end-of-life decisions.
Compassion & Choices (national), Compassion & Choices of Washington [...]

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