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	<title>Assisted-Suicide Blog &#187; Derek Humphry</title>
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		<title>Right to choose to die movement has &#8216;bible&#8217; book says magazine</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/03/right-to-choose-to-die-movement-has-bible-book-says-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an extract from a very interesting article in the March issue of &#8216;Atlanta&#8217; magazine which is well worth reading.
Extract:
If the right-to-die movement has a bible, it would be a 220-page book first published in 1991 and now in its third edition. Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lyrics to the new rock song &#8216;Final Exit&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/01/06/lyrics-to-the-new-rock-song-final-exit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ERGO would like to draw your attention to a music track due to be released by the hard rock band Fear Factory, titled &#8216;Final Exit&#8217;.  
Quietly voiced at the very beginning of the song are the words &#8220;Final Exit &#8211; The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying&#8221;, the exact title of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana becomes 3rd US state permitting physician-assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/31/montana-becomes-3rd-us-state-permitting-physician-assisted-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday (12.31.09) that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure.
Patients and doctors had been waiting for the state&#8217;s high court to step in after a lower court decided a year ago that constitutional rights to privacy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Final Exit Network&#8217;s newsletter discusses law on helping to die</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/16/new-final-exit-networks-newsletter-discusses-law-on-helping-to-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an update on the legal position of the 8 volunteers of the Final Exit Network facing prosecutions in Georgia and Arizona read the December 09 issue, just out, of the Final Exit Network&#8217;s newsletter on the web at this link
http://www.finalexitnetwork.org/Newsletters-12-09-on/Final_Exit_Newsletter_Vol_6_No_1-3%20for%20Web.pdf
]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto park bench plaques were fictional campaign for right-to-die awareness</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/11/toronto-park-bench-plaques-were-fictional-campaign-for-right-to-awareness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not an attempt to start any kind of “organization” or to solicit any money for any reason. “It’s just a personal conviction of ours," McKay said. We paid for it out of our own pockets.”  ]]></description>
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		<title>Realistically, assisted suicide for the troubled is not available</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/18/realistically-assisted-suicide-for-the-troubled-is-not-available/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/18/realistically-assisted-suicide-for-the-troubled-is-not-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time was when right-to-die groups were looked to for help exclusively by  terminally ill, and sometimes hopelessly ill, persons.  But nowadays with our greater public visibility, credibility and legislative progress, many mentally ill persons are approaching us expecting positive help.
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		<title>Judge rules that Georgia must return Final Exit Network&#8217;s money</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/15/judge-rules-that-georgia-must-return-final-exit-networks-money/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/15/judge-rules-that-georgia-must-return-final-exit-networks-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/15/judge-rules-that-georgia-must-return-final-exit-networks-money/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A judge has ruled that the state of Georgia must return funds seized from a group accused of helping a man end his life because it has taken too long to file a complaint against the organization. Forsyth County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey S. Bagley signed an order last week directing Georgia to return $330,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refresher info on how &#8216;right-to-die&#8217; laws stand now</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/12/refresher-info-on-how-right-to-die-laws-stand-now/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/12/refresher-info-on-how-right-to-die-laws-stand-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How ‘right-to-die’ stands in 2009 --
Where voluntary euthanasia (VE) and/or physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is now legally permitted under guidelines]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Final Exit&#8217; book remains challenged for nearly 20 years</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/09/26/611/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Final Exit&#8217; was honored by the American Library Associations Top 100 List of Banned Books as one of the most frequently challenged books in America for 1990 &#8211; 1999.  It came in at # 29.
Ten years later, it remains on the list of most commonly-challenged books in the United States, according to the A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>List of books</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/22/list-of-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can view a list of my books, from l972 through 2008, at this Amazon site:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B000AQ1V2K
Also, my memoir &#8220;Good Life, Good Death&#8221;
is now on Kindle or at the ERGO Bookstore
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