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 on May 29th, 2009
Last year the number of euthanasia cases registered [in Holland] went up by ten percent compared to 2007. The five regional euthanasia vetting committees say in their annual report that 2,300 cases were reported. They are expecting a further increase in the current year.
According to the committees the rise is due to a new law [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on May 22nd, 2009
The Associated Press newsagency reported on 22 May 2009:
Man ordered held in assisted suicide case
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A Las Vegas man was ordered held without bond Friday for allegedly trying to smuggle the same type of animal tranquilizers into the country that authorities say may have been used hours [...]
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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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Times of London columnist Libby Purves made this pithy comment 2.20.09:
‘The Swiss have, in their bland and unemphatic way, driven a coach and horses through law, custom and ethical debate in post-Christian Britain. Since 1998 Dignitas, with its unique willingness to accept foreign “members”, has made it hard to hold the line against assisted suicide. [...]
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Debbie Purdy, 45, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, wanted to know if her husband, the Cuban violinist Omar Puente, would be prosecuted if he helped her travel to die in a country where it is legal. Under British law, aiding and abetting suicide is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
But the [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Oct 20th, 2008
By Derek Humphry
(10.20.2008)
There has been a deluge of publicity in recent months about the easy availability of veterinary Nembutal (pentobarbital) in veterinary supply stores in Mexico. This has caused a much larger number of people than usual to travel there in search of the lethal drug for their self-deliverance from a terminal illness should their [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Oct 13th, 2008
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Books, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Mercy Killing, Politics/Law, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on May 8th, 2008
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – The majority of people in Mexico favour the basic principle of euthanasia, according to a poll by Parametría. 59 per cent of respondents think doctors should have the legal right to end the life of a person suffering from an incurable illness upon a request by the patient and his [...]
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