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	<title>Assisted-Suicide Blog &#187; Opinion Pieces</title>
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		<title>UK writer calls for &#8216;euthanasia booths&#8217; at street corners</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/01/24/uk-writer-calls-for-euthanasia-booths-at-street-corners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Amis, the British novelist, has called for euthanasia booths in every street corner  for pensioners to end their lives.
Britain is facing a demographic timebomb as its ageing population places an impossible burden on society, the controversial writer claimed.
Anti-euthanasia campaigners reacted with horror to the call for &#8216;death booths&#8217; for pensioners and branded Amis [...]]]></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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		<title>Police searching America for &#8216;assisted suicide&#8217; cases</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/06/08/police-searching-america-for-assisted-suicide-cases/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/06/08/police-searching-america-for-assisted-suicide-cases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For legal reasons, I cannot give advice on many questions that subscribers pose except for that information already contained in my book &#8216;Final Exit&#8217;  3rd edition, and its 2009 Addendum, which are protected under the 1st Amendment right to free speech and subsequent court decisions on books. 
Seven people in America are currently under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate on assisted suicide in UK hots up around Dr.Nitschke</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/07/debate-on-assisted-suicide-in-uk-hots-up-around-drnitschke/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/07/debate-on-assisted-suicide-in-uk-hots-up-around-drnitschke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 17:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of us in America are fascinated by the British reaction to Dr. Philip Nitschke&#8217;s current tour of Britain.  I write as a citizen of the UK and USA and a &#8216;right to die&#8217; watcher for 30 years.
The British public is fed up with its government&#8217;s refusal to modify the laws on assisted suicide. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italian right to die case upsets the Vatican as the world makes progress</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/02/11/italian-right-to-die-case-upsets-the-vatican-as-the-world-makes-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/02/11/italian-right-to-die-case-upsets-the-vatican-as-the-world-makes-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversy over the right to die of Eluana Englaro is really a battle over religious beliefs and secondarily about the law of Italy.
This case is being used as a football in a struggle for moral power by the Vatican over the rules of life and death.
All over the world, people nowadays want the individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet censorship looks like spreading</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/01/17/internet-censorship-looks-like-spreading/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/01/17/internet-censorship-looks-like-spreading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following Australia&#8217;s censorship ban on anything to do with euthanasia or assisted suicide appearing on the internet, I guessed that it was only a matter of time before a similar clamp-down would be tried elsewhere. Britain now appears to be the next target of the extreme right wingers. Prime Minister Brown has also spoken out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton supportive of Oregon assisted suicide law</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/04/07/presidential-candidate-hilary-clinton-supportive-of-oregon-assisted-suicide-law/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/04/07/presidential-candidate-hilary-clinton-supportive-of-oregon-assisted-suicide-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton told the editorial board of the Eugene Register-Guard
Q: What’s your attitude toward Oregon’s assisted suicide law?
A: I believe it’s within the province of the states to make that decision. I commend Oregon on this count, as well, because whether I agree with it or not or think it’s a good idea or not, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right to Choose to Die &#8212; not yet in France</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/20/the-right-to-choose-to-die-not-yet-in-france/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/20/the-right-to-choose-to-die-not-yet-in-france/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The simultaneous deaths of the writer Hugo Claus in Belgium and Chantal Sébire in France are a demonstration that our goal is not the choice between life and death,but between 2 different ways of dying.
Hugo Claus was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and decided to leave on his own terms at the moment he chose and before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hemlock Society USA&#8217;s fate</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2007/10/24/hemlock-society-usas-fate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  
What happened to the pioneering right-to-die group
 
When Gerald Larue and Derek Humphry entered the Los Angeles Press Club on 12 August 1980 to announce to the world the formation of the Hemlock Society, there were many doubters that it could last.
After all, it was the only organization in America currently saying that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should the right to jump off bridge remain ?</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2007/08/02/should-the-right-to-jump-off-bridge-remain/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2007/08/02/should-the-right-to-jump-off-bridge-remain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Golden Gate Bridge operators in San Francisco have put up a web site to invite comments on the placement of a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge: www.ggbsuicidebarrier.org   
Some have commented  that a suicide barrier should not be placed because, just as women have the right to decide if they [...]]]></description>
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