Weblog of Derek Humphry, Founder of Hemlock Society
Posted in Assisted Suicide on Dec 18th, 2009
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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 [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Film/TV/Radio, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Living Will, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Aug 22nd, 2009
You can view a list of my books, from l972 through 2008, at this Amazon site:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B000AQ1V2K
Also, my memoir “Good Life, Good Death”
is now on Kindle or at the ERGO Bookstore
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.
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, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Jun 26th, 2009
Dr. Peter Baumann (74) of Zurich has been sentenced to a 4 yr prison term for premeditated murder. This was reported in Swiss newspapers in recent days.
Dr. Baumann’s case goes back to 2001 when he was charged with having abetted, aided and assisted in the suicide of a 47 yr old patient, who it [...]
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.
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 [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Final Exit, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations on Feb 26th, 2009
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 [...]
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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