FBI agents seized dozens of boxes ready for shipment as part of an investigation into possible mail or wire fraud violations and whether Hydorn has violated a law prohibiting the sale of adulterated and mishandled medical devices. In Oregon, where assisted-suicide is legal under certain conditions, lawmakers have introduced a bill that would outlaw any device sold with the intent that another person use it to commit suicide.
Hydorn has been compared to Jack Kevorkian, the physician who went to prison in for assisting suicides. But the Dr. Wearing a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses, the tall and slender woman told reporters last week that hers is a mission of compassion. The federal investigation leaves her more bewildered than concerned, and she almost laughs at the prospect of going to prison. Her critics would say yes. Even people who believe in assisted-suicide said she peddles the product without knowing the circumstances or identities of the buyers.
While some suicidal people are rational, others are not, said Alan Berman, executive director of the American Assn. What if this was a person with a totally treatable psychological condition who was not otherwise given the opportunity to get treatment? Hydorn became interested in assisted-suicide after watching her once-healthy husband die from a long battle with colon cancer 30 years ago.
He passed away in a hospital bed and she regrets not being able to respect his wishes to die in the comfort of home.
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Forensic Sci Int ;— Nitschke has accompanied terminally ill patients on trips to buy it. Nitschke was the first doctor in the modern world to legally kill his patients. In , Australia's Northern Territory, his home state, legalized doctor-assisted suicide. In all, Nitschke helped four people die before the law was overturned.
Nitschke says he never questions what he is doing in light of the judgment of others or the biblical prohibition against killing. Now that the practice is illegal in his home state, Nitschke has hit the worldwide lecture circuit -- he's due to conduct workshops in the United States in November -- providing suicide tips and campaigning for the right to die. And only the terminally ill qualify in most of those places.
Not so to join Exit International. I think we should respect the right of rational adults to make this choice. His support of death for rational adults like Lisette Nigot, a healthy Australian woman who decided when she turned 80 that enough was enough and she would kill herself, has alienated more moderate elements in the pro-euthanasia movement.
Why don't you write a book? What I want from you, Philip, is technical information. And people argue that because that could happen, no one should get the information.
But Nitschke argues that those who want it, those who need it and those who are of sound mind have the right to be given detailed instructions on how to kill themselves, quickly, peacefully, legally. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest?
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