Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Final Exit, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Nov 20th, 2009
There is a long and extremely interesting article in the Guardian in London. Worth reading. To read it, go to (you may need to copy/paste this URL)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/18/assisted-suicide-dignitas-house
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Inside the Dignitas house
More than 1,000 people have traveled to Switzerland to end their lives. But what is it really like inside the world’s first assisted suicide [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Dead, Euthanasia, People in the News, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Oct 30th, 2009
A single solid pill for a peaceful death has been developed by Exit International.
The pill that is made from a stable inert form of the barbiturate Nembutal has been developed for long term storage and transport. To use the pill to achieve a peaceful death, the pill is altered into the soluble active drug [...]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, People in the News, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on May 1st, 2009
There is a significant and fascinating article in the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ of 1 May which is a lengthy article that begins…
A year ago, when a doctor finally diagnosed the brain disease that had been making it harder for her to walk without falling, Rona Zelniker told her son and daughter that she was going to [...]
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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, Hemlock, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), death, right to die on Oct 13th, 2008
‘Final Exit’ third edition, including the Addendum, and completely up-to-date, has been available for digital download eBook since 2007. Easy to read type, and amply illustrated. The gold standard in ‘how-to’ books, sold over a million in 12 languages.
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–Derek Humphry, Oregon
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