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by Michael Gillan Peckitt March 5, 2024 1

Kyoto District Court Sentences Physician to 18 Years in Prison for Killing Patient with ALS

The trial of Yoshikazu Okubo (45), who was charged with commission murder and murder for killing a patient with the incurable disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by administering drugs at her request has concluded.

The Kyoto District Court handed down the verdict on March 5th. Presiding Judge Hiroshi Kawakami rejected the defense’s claim of innocence and sentenced him to 18 years in prison (23 years in prison was originally sought), stating that “social appropriateness cannot be recognized at all.” He read out the reasons for the judgment and then delivered the main sentence.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt May 29, 2023 0

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Ex-Doctor Denies Murder of ALS Patient at Kyoto Court

A former doctor on Monday pleaded not guilty of murdering an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient in conspiracy with another doctor at the victim’s request.

“I didn’t conspire or murder,” Naoki Yamamoto, 45, said in the first hearing of his trial at Kyoto District Court. 

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 8, 2023 2

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Kyoto District Court Sentences Doctor Accused of Euthanizing ALS Patient to 13 Years for Killing Father

According to the verdict, Yamamoto conspired with his mother, 78, and fellow doctor Yoshikazu Okubo, 44, to kill his father, Yasushi, then 77, by unknown means in a Tokyo apartment in March 2011.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt May 13, 2021 1

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Doctors accused of killing ALS patient on commission are re-arrested on suspicion of murder

Two doctors who were arrested and charged with killing Yuri Hayashi, a woman living in Kyoto who had contracted ALS by administering drugs at her request have been re-arrested for the murder of the father of one of the doctors, who died 10 years ago, according to interviews with investigators.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt August 31, 2020 0

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The late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient, writes about “ALS and palliative care”

After her post on July 22nd 2019, Hayashi’s next post is on July 28th 2019 continues on the theme of life care with a post titled “ALS and palliative care”.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt August 31, 2020 4

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“How ALS patients can pass comfortably” writes the late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient

After the post on June 13 the next post is on July 22nd is titled “How ALS patients can pass comfortably.” This post includes a web link which is no longer available, but it seemed to have to do with Hayashi looking for ways to reduce respiratory distress when undergoing palliative care in the hope of a “peaceful end.”

by Michael Gillan Peckitt August 30, 2020 0

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“Why do you value life extension?” – asks the late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient

The late Yuri Hayashi, an ALS patient asked on Twitter “Why not think about death…Why do you value life extension?”

by Michael Gillan Peckitt August 29, 2020 0

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“I can’t do anything about myself, and what am I doing to protect the individual human being?” writes the late Yuri Hayashi ALS patient

“I can’t do anything about myself, and what am I doing to protect the individual human being?”

by Michael Gillan Peckitt August 27, 2020 0

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“I’m not satisfied with the consultation yesterday so please book again today.” writes the late Yuri Hayashi ALS patient

I said. On that day, I went to see a reliable doctor. When I got it, I found an abnormality immediately. I was told to go to the neurology department immediately. 

by Michael Gillan Peckitt August 20, 2020 0

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“The world inside and outside the bed” writes the late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient

I don’t want to sleep in bed.  I want to get up and go out.  But when I go outside and see other people  I’m a body that can’t even do that ordinary…  I feel it in my body.  And again