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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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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>Swiss doctor&#8217;s compassion lands him in prison</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/06/26/swiss-doctors-compassion-lands-him-in-prison/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/06/26/swiss-doctors-compassion-lands-him-in-prison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Peter Baumann (74) of Zurich has been sentenced to a 4 yr prison term for premeditated murder.  This was reported in Swiss newspapers in recent days.
Dr. Baumann&#8217;s case goes back to 2001 when he was charged with having abetted, aided and assisted in the suicide of a 47 yr old patient, who it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch court jails euthanasia group chairman for aiding suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/30/dutch-court-jails-euthanasia-group-chairman-for-aiding-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/30/dutch-court-jails-euthanasia-group-chairman-for-aiding-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Dutch court sentenced the chairman of an assisted suicide lobby group on 29 May to 10 months in jail, eight suspended, for helping a sick, 80-year-old woman kill herself.
The woman died in November 2007 after taking a lethal dose of pentobarbital, which prosecutors said was supplied to her children by the lobbyist after doctors [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 17:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=517</guid>
		<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>Nurse backing for assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/04/22/nurse-backing-for-assisted-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/04/22/nurse-backing-for-assisted-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two-thirds of nurses [in the UK] support the legalisation of assisted suicide, results of an Independent Nurse survey reveal.
Of 108 nurses who responded to the survey, 64 per cent said they thought assisted suicide should be legalised.
In addition, 67 per cent said that they thought that clinicians should be able to assist terminally ill patients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belgium woman, 93, gets the help to die that she wanted</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/04/04/belgium-woman-93-gets-the-help-to-die-that-she-wanted/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/04/04/belgium-woman-93-gets-the-help-to-die-that-she-wanted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 93-year-old Belgian woman has died after going on a 10-day hunger strike last month to force doctors to help her die, her family said. ]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/03/18/individuals-should-decide-on-the-extent-of-their-suffering-ted-goodwin/#comments</comments>
		<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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