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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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, Books, 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 Jun 14th, 2009
Defense fund started for the 7 workers of the Final Exit Network who were present when people took their lives to escape further suffering.
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Statement by the Board of the Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO)
ERGO is surprised and shocked by the arrests on 25 February 2009 of four members of the Final Exit Network for alleged assisted suicide. It is even more surprising that charges under the Rico laws for racketeering are involved. The Network is a membership [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Schiavo, Self-Deliverance, death, right to die on Jan 1st, 2009
Quote:
‘Knowing how to die well not only makes life more enjoyable but ensures that it is more endurable towards the inevitable end.’
—-Derek Humphry. Founder Hemlock Society USA, author ‘Final Exit’
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Jan 19th, 2008
The 2008 conference of the World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies
will be held in Paris from Oct 30 thru November 2 at the
Hotel Concorde-Lafayette. More details will
be announced here as we hear them from ADMD-France, the hosts.
Literature at http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Books, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Dec 9th, 2007
The Vancouver Sun reported on 8 Dec 07 that the helium in an ‘exit bag’ is new choice for assisted suicide for patients who are dying or suffering from an end-stage incurable illness.
Criminologist Russel Ogden said that at least 19 people
in B.C. have committed suicide by using helium since 1999, according tostatistics compiled [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Blogroll, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Dec 4th, 2007
So many viewers of this blog have been asking about the shelf-life
of helium in small tanks. Here’s a compendium of the replies so far
received. The answer seems to be that provided that the taps are kept
tightly shut up until the moment of use, never tampered with, they can
be stored for many years, until [...]
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