Weblog of Derek Humphry, Founder of Hemlock Society
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Living Will on Feb 8th, 2010
Dutch people over 70 years of age who feel tired of life should have the right to professional help in ending it, a citizens’ initiative in the Netherlands calling itself “Out of Free Will” demands. It will start collecting signatures in support of this proposed change in Dutch legislation, hoping to place the matter [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, death, right to die on Dec 31st, 2009
The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday (12.31.09) that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure.
Patients and doctors had been waiting for the state’s high court to step in after a lower court decided a year ago that constitutional rights to privacy and [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Dec 16th, 2009
For an update on the legal position of the 8 volunteers of the Final Exit Network facing prosecutions in Georgia and Arizona read the December 09 issue, just out, of the Final Exit Network’s newsletter on the web at this link
http://www.finalexitnetwork.org/Newsletters-12-09-on/Final_Exit_Newsletter_Vol_6_No_1-3%20for%20Web.pdf
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Living Will, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, right to die on Dec 11th, 2009
It is not an attempt to start any kind of “organization” or to solicit any money for any reason. “It’s just a personal conviction of ours,” McKay said. We paid for it out of our own pockets.”
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network on Jul 9th, 2009
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
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, 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 [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Jan 20th, 2008
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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