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, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Sep 26th, 2009
‘Final Exit’ was honored by the American Library Associations Top 100 List of Banned Books as one of the most frequently challenged books in America for 1990 – 1999. It came in at # 29.
Ten years later, it remains on the list of most commonly-challenged books in the United States, according to the A [...]
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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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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, 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 May 16th, 2009
As regional coordinator of the Final Exit Network, I have had reports of members being harassed by local police in response to a directive by the Georgia State police. It seems the GSPD contacts the targeted State police (in one case NJ) , who in turn contacts local police departments, with the directive to visit [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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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Luxembourg has become the third European Union country, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to decriminalise voluntary euthanasia.
Terminally ill people will be able to have their lives ended after receiving the approval of two doctors and a panel of experts.
Last year, Luxembourg became embroiled in a constitutional crisis when Grand Duke Henri refused to sign [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Dead, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Uncategorized, death, right to die on May 21st, 2008
Good Life, Good Death (eBook PDF)
Memoir of how a writer became an euthanasia advocate
by Derek Humphry
Founder of the Hemlock Society (1980-2003)
Author of Final Exit
NEW! Published May 21, 2008
$12.00 (PDF eBook) • 2008
Not available in paperback
321 pages • 19 chapters with photos
http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store
ISBN 978-0-9768283-3-4
Born in England, brought up in a broken family during six years of war, [...]
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