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		<title>Dignitas in Switzerland buys a house</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/20/631/</link>
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		<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>Dr Nitschke says he&#8217;ll be selling Nembutal pill next year</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/30/dr-nitschke-says-hell-be-selling-nembutal-pill-next-year/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/30/dr-nitschke-says-hell-be-selling-nembutal-pill-next-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A single solid pill for a peaceful death has been developed by Exit International.
The pill  that is made from a stable inert form of the barbiturate Nembutal has been developed for long term storage and transport. To use the pill to achieve a peaceful death, the pill is altered into the soluble active drug [...]]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=619</guid>
		<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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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=614</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=611</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/22/list-of-books/#comments</comments>
		<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>Bid to restrict assisted suicide in Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/18/bid-to-restrict-assisted-suicide-in-switzerland/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/18/bid-to-restrict-assisted-suicide-in-switzerland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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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>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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