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		<title>Helium deaths do not involve gagging say observers</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/17/helium-deaths-do-not-involve-gagging-say-observers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re Newsweek article on Dr Larry Egbert in which a lawyer said  this &#8220;The idea of someone gagging to death in a helium-filled hood is &#8220;ghoulish and frightening,&#8221; says Kathryn Tucker, legislative director for Compassion &#038; Choices. 
Which brought this response:
I, as an Exit member since 2005, found that article very disturbing. I can [...]]]></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>
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		<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 choose to die movement has &#8216;bible&#8217; book says magazine</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/03/right-to-choose-to-die-movement-has-bible-book-says-magazine/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/03/right-to-choose-to-die-movement-has-bible-book-says-magazine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an extract from a very interesting article in the March issue of &#8216;Atlanta&#8217; magazine which is well worth reading.
Extract:
If the right-to-die movement has a bible, it would be a 220-page book first published in 1991 and now in its third edition. Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman charged with smuggling Nembutal for euthanasia from Mexico</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/02/04/woman-charged-with-smuggling-nembutal-for-euthanasia-from-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A  woman has been charged with importing a euthanasia drug from Mexico into Australia. Two bottles of the border-controlled drug Nembutal were intercepted at Melbourne Airport last March.
Australian Federal Police officers executed a search warrant on an address in the eastern suburb of Canterbury on April 15, 2009 but the woman was not charged [...]]]></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>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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/01/24/uk-writer-calls-for-euthanasia-booths-at-street-corners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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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>Lyrics to the new rock song &#8216;Final Exit&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/01/06/lyrics-to-the-new-rock-song-final-exit/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/01/06/lyrics-to-the-new-rock-song-final-exit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ERGO would like to draw your attention to a music track due to be released by the hard rock band Fear Factory, titled &#8216;Final Exit&#8217;.  
Quietly voiced at the very beginning of the song are the words &#8220;Final Exit &#8211; The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying&#8221;, the exact title of [...]]]></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>Exchanging news and views on euthanasia</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/18/exchanging-news-and-views-on-euthanasia/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/18/exchanging-news-and-views-on-euthanasia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ERGO’s death with dignity news digest list is available to you.  So if you have a serious and enduring interest in this subject, consider subscribing to ERGO’s emailing list.  (No charges.) Exchange news and views on a wide range of right-to-die topics. Only subscribe if you in principle support the right of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check the strengths of bottles before self-deliverance</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/15/check-the-strengths-of-bottles-before-self-delivance/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/15/check-the-strengths-of-bottles-before-self-delivance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent posting warned that not all preparations of veterinary pentobarbital (&#8220;Nembutal&#8221;) have the same concentration.  In order for a 100-ml bottle to have 6 grams of pentobarbital, the concentration of the drug needs to be 60 milligrams (mg) per millilitre (ml), so read the fine print on the label.  Two bottles are [...]]]></description>
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