Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Opinion Pieces, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Mar 20th, 2008
The simultaneous deaths of the writer Hugo Claus in Belgium and Chantal Sébire in France are a demonstration that our goal is not the choice between life and death,but between 2 different ways of dying.
Hugo Claus was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and decided to leave on his own terms at the moment he chose and before [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Technology, death, right to die on Mar 18th, 2008
The New York Times health section carried this article on 18 March 08:
Terminal Options for the Irreversibly Ill, By JANE E. BRODY
My Feb. 5 column, “A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit,” prompted a deluge of information and requests for information on how people too sick to reap meaningful pleasure from life might [...]
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Agence France Presse reported on 20 Feb 08:
Luxembourg to become third EU country to allow euthanasia
Luxembourg lawmakers have adopted a bill legalising euthanasia, priming
the Grand Duchy to become the third EU country allowing doctors to help
patients end their own lives.
The parliament passed the bill with only a slim majority with 30 out of
59 lawmakers voting [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Events/Conferences, Final Exit, Hemlock, Mercy Killing, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Jan 20th, 2008
On January 9, former Governor Booth Gardner filed the Washington State
Death with Dignity Initiative with the Secretary of State. It is a
replica of the successful and court-tested Oregon law. Joining Governor
Gardner were Washington nurses, physicians, clergy, patient advocates,
and family members who have faced difficult end-of-life decisions.
Compassion & Choices (national), Compassion & Choices of Washington [...]
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