Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Nov 20th, 2009
There is a long and extremely interesting article in the Guardian in London. Worth reading. To read it, go to (you may need to copy/paste this URL)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/18/assisted-suicide-dignitas-house
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Inside the Dignitas house
More than 1,000 people have traveled to Switzerland to end their lives. But what is it really like inside the world’s first assisted suicide [...]
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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, Dead, Euthanasia, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Oct 29th, 2009
Switzerland has announced plans to crack down on so-called ’suicide tourism’ by signalling that it might close the Dignitas clinic that has helped hundreds of terminally ill people to end their lives.
The plans, in the form of two draft Bills that will be offered for public debate, are likely to set off a rush [...]
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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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Two popular initiatives, both dealing with assisted suicides, have gathered enough signatures to call for a vote in canton Zurich, Switzerland. No date has been scheduled for the votes.
The first calls for the canton to allow assistance but only for people who have been resident in the canton for at least a year. The [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Aug 3rd, 2009
DIGNITAS will help foreign visitors to die in cases which they feel justified because of the terminal and hopeless suffering. The person must be a competent adult.
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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, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on May 10th, 2009
There has been a lot of talk recently of getting from Mexico bottles of veterinary Nembutal for self-deliverance.
Some reports claim one bottle is enough. True, one bottle of veterinary Nembutal (6 gms) will end the life of a frail, elderly person already close to death, but a physically strong person, healthy in all [...]
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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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