Weblog of Derek Humphry, Founder of Hemlock Society
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Living Will on Feb 8th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Final Exit, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death on Dec 1st, 2009
In 2008 the Dutch controlling committees received 2331 declarations of which 2146 were cases of euthanasia, 152 cases of assisted suicide and 33 cases of a combination of the two.
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Nov 25th, 2009
Euthanasia still a taboo for mental patients – even in the Netherlands
“People suffering from an incurable mental disease have the same legal right to euthanasia as physically terminally ill patients in the Netherlands, but they almost never get it.”
Practitioners reviewed the situation of mental patients and euthanasia [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Blogroll, Dead, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Politics/Law, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Mar 23rd, 2009
Liberty and Death
A manifesto concerning an individual’s right to choose to die
In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty –- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing.
Whereas modern medicine has [...]
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death on Mar 21st, 2008
Terminally-ill patients in the Netherlands increasingly receive drugs to render them unconscious until death,
according to a study that suggests people are substituting deep sedation for legal euthanasia.
The researchers found that 1,800 people — 7.1 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2005 — were drugged into so-called continuous deep sedation shortly before dying. This [...]
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