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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>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/04/oregon-physician-assisted-suicide-deaths-remain-steady/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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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 die documentary film up for Oscar prize</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/02/02/right-to-die-documentary-film-up-for-oscar-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/02/02/right-to-die-documentary-film-up-for-oscar-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the nominations for Oscars in the  short documentary category announced in Hollywood today is
&#8211; &#8220;The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner,&#8221; from Just Media, which is a portrait of the former governor of the state of Washington who led a campaign on behalf of the state&#8217;s Death with Dignity Act, which permits assisted [...]]]></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>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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/16/new-final-exit-networks-newsletter-discusses-law-on-helping-to-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=647</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/11/toronto-park-bench-plaques-were-fictional-campaign-for-right-to-awareness/#comments</comments>
		<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>Taboo on mental health assisted suicides remains</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/25/taboo-on-mental-health-assisted-suicides-remains/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/25/taboo-on-mental-health-assisted-suicides-remains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Euthanasia still a taboo for mental patients &#8211; even in the Netherlands
    &#8220;People suffering from an incurable mental disease have the same legal right to euthanasia as physically terminally ill patients in the Netherlands, but they almost never get it.&#8221;
    Practitioners reviewed the situation of mental patients and euthanasia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dignitas in Switzerland buys a house</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/20/631/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/20/631/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a long and extremely interesting article in the Guardian in London. Worth reading.  To read it, go to  (you may need to copy/paste this URL)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/18/assisted-suicide-dignitas-house
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-
Inside the Dignitas house
More than 1,000 people have traveled to Switzerland to end their lives. But what is it really like inside the world&#8217;s first assisted suicide [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=625</guid>
		<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>Swiss assisted suicide groups under government pressure</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/29/swiss-assisted-suicide-groups-under-government-pressure/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/29/swiss-assisted-suicide-groups-under-government-pressure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Switzerland has announced plans to crack down on so-called &#8217;suicide tourism&#8217; by signalling that it might close the Dignitas clinic that has helped hundreds of terminally ill people to end their lives.
The plans, in the form of two draft Bills that will be offered for public debate,  are likely to set off a rush [...]]]></description>
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