Sean Davison Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sean-davison/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 19 Sep 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sean Davison Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sean-davison/ 32 32 Right to die activist Davison faces murder charge https://jjcornish.com/2018/09/right-to-die-activist-davison-faces-murder-charge/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/09/right-to-die-activist-davison-faces-murder-charge/ Euthenasia activist Sean Davison faces a charge of premediated murder for assisting in the death of a friend left paraplegic after a car accident. Davison, 57, who was arrested yesterday (Wednesday) has indicated to  the Cape Town court, through his lawyer, that he intends pleading not guilty. The State did not oppose bail of 1,170 […]

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]]> Euthenasia activist Sean Davison faces a charge of premediated murder for assisting in the death of a friend left paraplegic after a car accident.

Davison, 57, who was arrested yesterday (Wednesday) has indicated to  the Cape Town court, through his lawyer, that he intends pleading not guilty.

The State did not oppose bail of 1,170 euros for Davison who came to prominence in 2011 after assisting his mother’s death in New Zealand by giving her morphine.

He served a five-month period of house arrest in New Zealand.

Davison, who founded Dignity SA, is charged with the murder of paraplegic Dr Anrich Burger in Sea Point five years ago.

He is due back in court on November 16.

Prosecutor Megan Blow told the court new information had come to light indicating that  Davison has committed other similar offenses of assisted suicides.

Dignity SA co-founder Willem Landman said serious crimes squad detectives had searched Davison house and seized is laptop and mobile phone.

Euthenasia is illegal in South Africa.

Two years ago the state appealed a High Court ruling granting a man the right to a medically assisted death.

The Appeal Court overturned that judgment that could have opened the way to assisted suicides.

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]]> Man dies on the day court ruling enables legal suicide https://jjcornish.com/2015/05/man-dies-on-the-day-court-ruling-enables-legal-suicide/ Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/05/man-dies-on-the-day-court-ruling-enables-legal-suicide/ Suffering from prostate cancer, a retired South African advocate has died on the same day that the Pretoria High Court ruled he could legally end his life. His family did not say if he died before or after the judge passed what they called a ground-breaking judgment. end intro The family of 65-year-old Robert Stransham Ford […]

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]]> Suffering from prostate cancer, a retired South African advocate has died on the same day that the Pretoria High Court ruled he could legally end his life.
His family did not say if he died before or after the judge passed what they called a ground-breaking judgment.
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The family of 65-year-old Robert Stransham Ford say he died peacefully in the presence of family and carers.
Dignity SA, which lobbies for assisted suicide legislation, specifies he dies of natural causes.
The organisation says it expects the ruling to set in motion the process of legalising assisted dying in South Africa
The High Court in Pretoria ruled that Stransham-Ford could have a doctor help him die and
that the doctor would be protected from prosecution.
Medically-assisted suicide remains illegal in South Africa, but there have
been growing calls for it to be legalised.
Judge Hans Fabricius saYS in his ruling that Stransham-Ford was entitled
to end his life, either by administration of a lethal agent or by providing
the applicant with the necessary lethal agent to administer himself.
Five years ago, a South African professor, Sean Davison, living in New Zealand was found guilty by a court there of helping his cancer-stricken mother take her own life.
He was placed under house arrest for five months.

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