Posted in Assisted Suicide, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Mar 27th, 2008
A severely disfigured French woman, found dead
this month after a court rejected her request for euthanasia, took a
lethal overdose of barbiturates, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
Former schoolteacher Chantal Sebire, 52, suffered from a rare and
incurable tumour which severely deformed her face and caused her to lose
the sense of smell, taste and finally her eyesight.
Her […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Mar 24th, 2008
The hardcopy paperback ‘Final Exit’ 3rd edition by Derek Humphry touched the 5,061 mark in Amazon.com’s sales listing today.
You can download an even more up-to-date digitized edition at www.finalexit.org/ergo-store
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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 […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death on Mar 15th, 2008
This week “Jean’s Way” appeared bookstores in Turkey in a
translation. Next month it will also appear in Mexico for the first time.
It tells the story of my assisted suicide of my first wife, Jean, who
had late-stage terminal cancer.
Starting in London, this month ‘Jean’s Way’ has been in continuous print
in English for 30 […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Feb 27th, 2008
I’m the author of a new novel titled SOUVENIR,
which is out now from Random House/Ballantine Books.
My novel, which centers on a woman who has ALS, in not any kind of how-to, position on the matter of terminally ill individuals’ right to end their
lives on their own terms.
info at
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345499684
My interest in the […]
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The question is often raised as to why Oregon is the only state in the USA to pass a law (Death With Dignity Act, 1994) allowing physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Part of the answer lies in that fewer Oregonians go to church, and this is again confirmed.
A study released Monday by the […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), right to die on Feb 19th, 2008
It is with a great pleasure that I inform you that today, February 19,
2008, that the Parliament of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has approved the
bill Errr/Huss on de-criminalization of euthanasia.
Now we can say that in the countries of Benelux (the Netherlands,
Belgium and Luxembourg) do exist the right for patients to receive the
medical assistance to make […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Jan 28th, 2008
There were 69 comments about the article in Friday’s London Daily Mail (01/25/08) reporting on an elderly, sick couple in York who took their lives together. At the inquest, the coroner blamed the book ‘Final Exit’ and said it was ’shameless.’ All but 2-3 comments of the 69 people who responded to […]
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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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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 […]
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