In mid July at the Secret Garden Party Festival in Cambridgeshire in the UK, The Loop alcohol and drug testing service achieved the impossible. They conducted police-approved, lawful drug testing for party-goers. Politics.co.uk writes that a 10m sq patch of lawn became Ground Zero for those wanting their party drugs ...
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I must admit, while not a conservative voter, last week I started to get a bit sucked in! Last week, there was Theresa May, Britain's would-be next (and now new) Prime Minister wearing purple. While I'm yet to notice Hillary in the color of feminism (and dignity), I convinced myself ...
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The forthcoming Exit 20th Anniversary conference is titled 'From Voluntary Euthanasia to Rational Suicide'. But what are we talking about? Generally speaking, VE - voluntary euthanasia is the catch-all term that means an assisted death. Euthanasia comes from the Greek, meaning good death. Voluntary speaks for itself (although as some ...
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Whoever said it was Donald Trump who was causing moral panic and outrage in the US at the moment was only partly right. The other mischief maker is the Dutch, at least where euthanasia is concerned. The study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows ...
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"I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain," he wrote in a letter addressed to state lawmakers. "I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill. "And I wouldn't ...
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I made a late submission to the Parliamentary Committee Inquiry into End of Life Choices in the Australian state of Victoria, not expecting it to be accepted, but it was. Here it is : …the tintinnabulation that so musically wells  From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling ...
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When Australian Broadcast Corporation invited contributions to their Death and Dying ABC Open project, I submitted the following. But it has not appeared on the website. Is this a case of censorship by our national broadcaster? I guess we'll never know since they are not responding to my emails. Dr. Johannes Klabbers On ...
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Why I don’t want to know about dying to know day A lot of things have a day now. Last week we had Cheesecake Day. That was good. I like cheesecake. In Mexico they have a Day of the Dead. In Australia The Groundswell Project has declared August 8th #DyingToKnowDay ...
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Rogi Wieg, a well known Dutch poet, died by voluntary euthanasia in Amsterdam on Wednesday night. Throughout his life he suffered from serious depression and anxiety. He frequently had long spells in psychiatric institutions where he received electroshock therapy. He attempted suicide three times. His request for euthanasia was granted ...
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The Fairfax media in Australia this week seemed to have worked themselves into a lather about young people taking Nembutal. As was written about in Philip Nitschke's autobiography Damned If I Do back in 2012 when Fairfax last mounted a moral panic campaign on this topic, those who are younger ...
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