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	<title>Assisted-Suicide Blog &#187; Hemlock</title>
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		<title>Final Exit Network accused of being a criminal enterprise</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/09/final-exit-network-accused-of-being-a-criminal-enterprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Georgia, a Forsyth County Grand jury said four members of the right-to-die group, the Final Exit Network, operated a criminal enterprise that helped people die.
An indictment returned Tuesday charges the Final Exit Network along with co-founder Thomas &#8220;Ted&#8221; Goodwin, 64, of Kennesaw and Punta Gorda, Fla.; Claire Blehr, 77, of Atlanta; and Dr. Lawrence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon physician-assisted suicide deaths remain steady.</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/04/oregon-physician-assisted-suicide-deaths-remain-steady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                 Oregon physician-assisted suicide 
There were 59 people in 2009 who brought their lives to an end with physician-assisted dying under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, according to a report just issued by the state’s department of health. [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/31/montana-becomes-3rd-us-state-permitting-physician-assisted-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/09/26/611/#comments</comments>
		<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>Guidelines for an approach to Dignitas in Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/03/guidelines-for-an-approach-to-dignitas-in-switzerland/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/03/guidelines-for-an-approach-to-dignitas-in-switzerland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DIGNITAS will help foreign visitors  to die in cases which they feel justified because of the terminal and hopeless suffering.  The person must be a competent adult. 
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		<title>Individuals should decide on the extent of their suffering &#8212; Ted Goodwin</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/03/18/individuals-should-decide-on-the-extent-of-their-suffering-ted-goodwin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted Goodwin, one of the four persons charged by Georgia police with assisting a suicide, told the Associated Press on 03.17.09:
&#8220;We believe that it is the right of every mentally competent adult to determine whether he or she is suffering,&#8221; Goodwin said. &#8220;We do not believe this should be left to the physicians, church leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Faye Girsh your story about terminal suffering</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/03/13/tell-faye-girsh-your-story-about-terminal-suffering/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/03/13/tell-faye-girsh-your-story-about-terminal-suffering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For almost 30 years people in our movement have found themselves in trouble with legal authorities. Some have had prolonged court cases; a few have spent time in prison, most have been &#8220;busted&#8221; for their compassionate efforts to end suffering. Now, again, four of our volunteers have been arrested for providing support for a peaceful [...]]]></description>
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