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Changes in the board of the World Federation of Right to Die societies
Aug 20, 1970
The WFRtDS has a new president, Jacob Kohnstamm and a new vice-president, Jacqueline Herremans. Annelies Plaisant was re-elected as treasurer and Faye Girsh is now newsletter editor.
Bush presidency begins decline
Aug 20, 1970
By Earl Wettstein, President of Arizonans for Death with Dignity (a branch of Hemlock USA).
President Bush's approval rating has peaked somewhere around 88% and will now begin a decline toward his Failure to Get Re-elected Day in November of 2004.
With his decision to unleash Attorney General Ashcroft on the Oregon Death With Dignity Law, he has gutted not only that law, but his presidency. He just doesn't know it yet.
“Death Tourism”
Aug 20, 1970
In the last year, Dignitas in Switzerland has attracted great media coverage, in the UK and in Europe at large, for assisting the suicides of people who are not Swiss citizens.
Better communication needed between pharmacists and doctors about doses and techniqus for euthanasia
Aug 20, 1970
Interview with former professor of pharmacology and hospital doctor, dr. Jan Glerum
MAN WANTS TO LET COMATOSE WIFE DIE
Aug 20, 1970
A man seeking to end the life of his comatose wife against the wishes of her parents asked for a court order Monday that would allow him to again cut off her food and water.
A Hemlock by any other name...
Aug 20, 1970
The Hemlock Society USA intends to change its name to one more acceptable to legislators. But it cannot make up its mind to what. When Hemlock’s founders adopted the name in l980 it was meant as an allusion to the poison weed used by ancient Greek and Roman civilizations for suicide. In literature, particularly Shakespeare, the ‘taking of hemlock’ referred to rational suicide. American legislators apparently see odious connotations to Socrates taking hemlock because the Roman Senate condemned to him to death or exile for treasonous teachings.
Undermedicating Called Elder Abuse: Jury Awards $1.5 Million Over Cancer Pain
Aug 20, 1970
A jury has awarded $1.5 million to the family of a man who accused his doctor of not prescribing enough pain medication during a battle with lung cancer.
History of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies
Aug 20, 1970
In 1976 Dr Tenrei Ota, upon formation of the Japan Euthanasia Society (now the Japan Society for Dying with Dignity), called for an international meeting of existing national right-to-die societies
Practical Issues in Physician-Assisted Suicide
Aug 20, 1970
American College for Physicians offers facts on legal and medical consequences of physician-assisted suicide.
Ashcroft's odd targets
Aug 20, 1970
We have terrorists on the loose, anthrax wafting through the mail, and the Justice Department is in hot pursuit of ... terminally ill patients?