Enabling choice at the end of life
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Five Last Acts II
Five Last Acts 2nd Edition (Click image to order). Helium, Drugs, Compression Technique, Plastic Bags, Starvation-Dehydration examined & explained. The authoritative guide.
For even more: Five Last Acts – The Exit Path
● Five Last Acts: The Exit Path 2015. ● 822 pages. ● The world's first and most authoritative book to include self-euthanasia with nitrogen ● over 100 illustrations and ‘how-to‘ diagrams. ● Over 1000 references. ● tables & charts ● Tips and checklists ● scientific evidence. "This is quite a tome! But for a very detailed and clear examination of all the background to the technical intricacies of the movement for the right to choose to die it is in a class on its own. This book is for the science-minded DIY person. A most unusual book." – Derek Humphry
Tag Archives: Kevorkian
Afraid of dying?
Earlier this year on this Blog, we added the strapline, Taking away the fear of death. Fear of dying badly is one aspect, hence Exit’s original mission; fear of everything coming to an end is also an aspect. Knowing how … Continue reading
On this day
In 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian carried out his first publicly assisted suicide, helping Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Alzheimer’s patient from Portland, Ore., end her life in Oakland County, Michigan.
Kevorkian: 2 for the price of 1
“First of all, do any of you here think it’s a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now!” So opens Kevorkian’s speech in this challenging play based on … Continue reading
Farewell Jack – Exit remembers Dr Kevorkian
“Dr Death is Dead!” ran the headlines as Jack Kevorkian, the most prominent of doctors ever to assist in suicides, reached his own last stand in Michigan’s William Beaumont Hospital, last June 3rd, and eight days after his 83rd birthday. … Continue reading
Euthanasia – on the big and the small screen
How to Die in Oregon tells the stories of terminally ill Oregonians as they decide when, and whether, to end their lives at the time and circumstance of their own choosing under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act. From its opening … Continue reading
Kevorkian criticises assisted suicide laws
Dr Kevorkian has again been vocal in taking issue with existing laws on assisted suicide. “Oregon, Montana, Washington – that’s not euthanasia: a doctor can’t do it. The patient’s got to take the pill himself. If he can’t move, he … Continue reading
Assisted suicide law broken. No prosecution. Innocent.
Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), has today said that although there is sufficient evidence to prosecute two men in England involved in an assisted suicide, it would not be in the public’s interest and no further action … Continue reading
Organ Transplant Euthanasia?
A new paper on voluntary euthanasia and organ transplants is causing quite a stir. The authors, Julian Savulescu and Dominic Wilkinson, suggest that being able to donate one’s organs while requesting euthanasia could give an added sense of meaning to … Continue reading
The EXIT euthanasia blog 