Right to choose to die issue swings upward
More than a dozen states, plus the District of Columbia, are considering physician-assisted dying legislation this year. The laws would allow mentally fit, terminally ill patients age 18 and older,...
View ArticleJudge turns one F E Network trial into two!
HASTINGS, Minnesota, April 27, 2015 — The long-awaited trial of Final Exit Network and four of its volunteer Exit Guides has been whittled down to a trial of only the corporation, Final Exit Network,...
View ArticleParty balloon kits now 20 percent diluted
THE HELIUM HOOD METHOD The world’s leading manufacturer of disposable helium cylinders, Worthington Industries, announced in May 2015 that they would be altering the hitherto pure helium contained in...
View ArticleFinal Exit Network trial ready to begin
Final Exit Network trial begins Monday Two of the four criminal charges pending against Final Exit Network, Inc. in Hastings, Minnesota were dismissed Friday morning. Before the dismissal, the...
View ArticleFree speech in jeopardy after Minnesota court decision
Press release from the Final Exit Network Minnesota Case: Final Exit Network Found Guilty Of a Crime For Showing Compassion HASTINGS, Minnesota, May 14 — A 12-member jury found Final Exit Network, Inc....
View ArticleThe next world euthanasia conference
World euthanasia conference in Amsterdam in May next year The international euthanasia conference, Euthanasia 2016 will take place on May 11-14, 2016, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The World...
View ArticleWorld needs to catch up on right-to-die, says judge
A Baltimore Circuit Court judge denied Dr.Lawrence Egbert’s request to reinstate his medical license Thursday, but not before expressing some sympathy for the right-to-die advocate linked to six deaths...
View ArticleWhere can a person obtain ‘pure’ helium?
INQUIRY Unfortunately I missed the warning about the change in helium tanks that will now include oxygen. I have been unable to find any “old” tanks locally and am hesitant to take the chance ordering...
View ArticleNew Mexico’s assisted suicide ruling struck down
The New Mexico Court of Appeals has struck down a prior Bernalillo County District Court ruling that essentially allowed assisted suicide in the state. In a split decision, a majority of the court...
View ArticleFinal Exit Network summer 2015 newsletter out
The Summer 2015 edition of the newsletter of the Final Exit Network is now available at these two sites: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e6ef452997b038556a1d22505/files/FEN_Sum_2015.pdf...
View ArticleFinal Exit Network to appeal $33,000 fine over free speech
Statement by Final Exit Network: HASTINGS, Minnesota, August 24, 2015 — Final Exit Network was sentenced to pay a $30,000 fine today for “assisting in a suicide” in connection with the 2007...
View ArticleDeath With Dignity Day coming on January 2, 2016
Press release from the Final Exit Network Dear Fellow Right-to-Die Supporters: Books have the power to encourage and advance change. But only rarely does a book, by itself, establish a new civil...
View ArticleSome weekend views on right-to-die issue sites
A few interesting sites relevant to right-to-die to view this weekend: At this website you can now read summaries of all the papers delivered at the conference earlier in May in Amsterdam of the World...
View ArticleRight-to-die activist doctor dies
DEATH OF LARRY EGBERT Dr. Lawrence Deems Egbert, 87, has died. He suffered a heart attack on Thursday and died without suffering. He lived in Baltimore. He leaves a widow, Ellen Barfield. Larry was...
View ArticleNoted right-to-die doctor and activist dies at 88
ERGO/Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ellen Barfield, (410) 243-5876 DEATH WITH DIGNITY ADVOCATE DR. LAWRENCE EGBERT DIES Lawrence D. Egbert, MD, MPH, the...
View ArticleNew Mexico judge rejects assisted dying as open to abuse
The Supreme Court of New Mexico has ruled that terminally ill New Mexicans do not have a constitutionally protected right to enlist a doctor’s help to end their lives. Justice Edward L. Chavez wrote in...
View ArticleBehind the scenes at the Final Exit Network
The Atlantic magazine has published in its current issue a fine article about Final Exit Network’s Exit Guide program. Here it is:...
View ArticlePhysician-assisted suicide, euthanasia: increasingly legal but still rare
(Reuters Health) – Legalized euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are mainly used by patients with cancer, but remain rare, according to a new analysis of such programs. In the last year alone,...
View ArticleInteresting PODCAST on right-to-die controversy
There is a worthwhile PODCAST to listen to the controversy surrounding the right to choose to die when at life’s end (self-deliverance, assisted suicide, assisted dying — whichever name suits you) at...
View ArticleRight-to-die debate worth listening to as podcast
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/euthanasia-pro-and-con/id1132910035?mt=2 Podcast by ” Euthanasia: Pro and Con ” on iTunes 1 Episode 4. Derek Humphry: author of Final Exit, the handbook Derek...
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