Weblog of Derek Humphry, Founder of Hemlock Society
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, RTD News, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Mar 4th, 2010
Oregon physician-assisted suicide
There were 59 people in 2009 who brought their lives to an end with physician-assisted dying under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, according to a report just issued by the state’s department of health. [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death on Mar 3rd, 2010
This is an extract from a very interesting article in the March issue of ‘Atlanta’ magazine which is well worth reading.
Extract:
If the right-to-die movement has a bible, it would be a 220-page book first published in 1991 and now in its third edition. Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
was [...]
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, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, Suicide (rational), right to die on Feb 2nd, 2010
Among the nominations for Oscars in the short documentary category announced in Hollywood today is
– “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner,” from Just Media, which is a portrait of the former governor of the state of Washington who led a campaign on behalf of the state’s Death with Dignity Act, which permits assisted [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Jan 6th, 2010
ERGO would like to draw your attention to a music track due to be released by the hard rock band Fear Factory, titled ‘Final Exit’.
Quietly voiced at the very beginning of the song are the words “Final Exit – The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying”, the exact title of [...]
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, 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.
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 [...]
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, 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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