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	<description>Weblog of Derek Humphry, Founder of Hemlock Society</description>
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		<title>Bid to restrict assisted suicide in Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/18/bid-to-restrict-assisted-suicide-in-switzerland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two popular initiatives, both dealing with assisted suicides,  have gathered enough signatures to call for a vote in canton Zurich, Switzerland. No date has been scheduled for the votes.
The first calls for the canton to allow assistance but only for people who have been resident in the canton for at least a year. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Euthanasia activist in Paris has elegant web site</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/12/13/euthanasia-activist-in-paris-has-elegant-web-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at this elegant web site by French choice-in-dying activist Jacqueline Jencquel, which is full &#8212; in two languages &#8212; of news, plus sharp pictures which load quickly.
http://www.jacquelinejencquel.com
&#8212;Derek Humphry 12/13/08
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		<title>Now is the time to reform assisted suicide laws in UK</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/12/12/now-is-the-time-to-reform-assisted-suicide-laws-in-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting to note that two of the most influential voices in British publishing have &#8212; in editorials &#8212; demanded that something be done about the archaic laws on assisted suicide prevailing in Britain: THE TIMES  and the ECONOMIST have now spoken out; perhaps others will  follow.
It chanced that I first raised the issue of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acting in unison at the deathbed can be helpful</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/07/22/acting-in-unison-at-the-deathbed-can-be-helpful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not unusual for families to face a huge dilemma over whether to help a loved one die, be it in terminal illness, degenerative conditions, or simply unbearable, extreme old age. Who amongst us will pull the plug? Who will take the responsibility of even being present in moral support?
I have read in old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Euthanasia entrepreneurs exposed on TV</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/05/19/euthanasia-entrepreneurs-revealed-on-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 16:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re tv program &#8220;Reverend Death&#8221; on Channel 4, UK, tonight Monday, May 19,  at 10 pm
Two clips from the film are already on the Channel 4 web site:
http://www.channel4.com/video/reverend-death/series-1/.
The video is best seen with Internet Explorer
Clip #2 tells how Exoo and Thomas were going to become &#8220;assisted suicidemartyrs&#8221; if they felt they would be arrested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Mexicans want voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/05/08/most-mexicans-want-voluntary-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/05/08/most-mexicans-want-voluntary-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 23:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Angus Reid Global Monitor) &#8211; The majority of people in Mexico favour the basic principle of euthanasia, according to a poll by Parametría. 59 per cent of respondents think doctors should have the legal right to end the life of a person suffering from an incurable illness upon a request by the patient and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assisted suicide was there when he wanted it</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/04/27/assisted-suicide-was-there-when-he-wanted-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A terminally ill man who was about to be helped to die via physician-assisted suicide under Oregon&#8217;s Death With Dignity law, offered those who were there to help him the information that he had twice voted against the law when it was a ballot initiative in l994 and l997.
But now that he needed assisted dying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Suicide machine&#8217; (shoebox size) offered in Germany</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/04/14/suicide-machine-shoebox-size-offered-in-germany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A German lawyer and politician has unveiled Europe&#8217;s first suicide machine for people with a death wish as &#8220;an act of Christian love&#8221;.  The machine that can be rented and is then collected to be re-used by other clients kills painlessly at the push of a button.
It was unveiled by Dr Roger Kusch, 53, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court refuses euthanasia, so woman ends her own painful life</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/27/court-refuses-euthanasia-so-woman-ends-her-own-painful-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A severely disfigured French woman, found dead
this month after a court rejected her request for euthanasia, took a
lethal overdose of barbiturates, a prosecutor said on Thursday.

Former schoolteacher Chantal Sebire, 52, suffered from a rare and
incurable tumour which severely deformed her face and caused her to lose
the sense of smell, taste and finally her eyesight.

Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Final Exit&#8217; book high in sales rankings</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/24/final-exit-book-high-in-sales-rankings-2/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/24/final-exit-book-high-in-sales-rankings-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hardcopy paperback &#8216;Final Exit&#8217; 3rd edition by Derek Humphry touched the 5,061 mark in Amazon.com&#8217;s sales listing today.
You can download an even more up-to-date digitized edition at www.finalexit.org/ergo-store 
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