Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Mar 9th, 2010
In Georgia, a Forsyth County Grand jury said four members of the right-to-die group, the Final Exit Network, operated a criminal enterprise that helped people die.
An indictment returned Tuesday charges the Final Exit Network along with co-founder Thomas “Ted” Goodwin, 64, of Kennesaw and Punta Gorda, Fla.; Claire Blehr, 77, of Atlanta; and Dr. Lawrence [...]
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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 [...]
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A woman has been charged with importing a euthanasia drug from Mexico into Australia. Two bottles of the border-controlled drug Nembutal were intercepted at Melbourne Airport last March.
Australian Federal Police officers executed a search warrant on an address in the eastern suburb of Canterbury on April 15, 2009 but the woman was not charged [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Jan 25th, 2010
An elderly couple unable to bear living apart committed suicide by drinking cyanide from tea cups at their dining room table, an inquest in the UK heard.
Retired physicist Arthur Prior, 90, probably brewed the deadly poison himself in a lab in the basement.
He sat down with his wife of 60 years, Mary, 87, and they [...]
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Martin Amis, the British novelist, has called for euthanasia booths in every street corner for pensioners to end their lives.
Britain is facing a demographic timebomb as its ageing population places an impossible burden on society, the controversial writer claimed.
Anti-euthanasia campaigners reacted with horror to the call for ‘death booths’ for pensioners and branded Amis [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide on Dec 18th, 2009
ERGO’s death with dignity news digest list is available to you. So if you have a serious and enduring interest in this subject, consider subscribing to ERGO’s emailing list. (No charges.) Exchange news and views on a wide range of right-to-die topics. Only subscribe if you in principle support the right of a [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide on Dec 15th, 2009
A recent posting warned that not all preparations of veterinary pentobarbital (“Nembutal”) have the same concentration. In order for a 100-ml bottle to have 6 grams of pentobarbital, the concentration of the drug needs to be 60 milligrams (mg) per millilitre (ml), so read the fine print on the label. Two bottles are [...]
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