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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>New Dutch group campaigns for legal elderly suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/02/08/new-dutch-group-campaigns-for-legal-elderly-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dutch people over 70 years of age who feel tired of life should have the right to professional help in ending it, a citizens&#8217; initiative in the Netherlands calling itself &#8220;Out of Free Will&#8221; demands. It will start collecting signatures in support of this proposed change in Dutch legislation, hoping to place the matter [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=642</guid>
		<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>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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		<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>Final Exit Network members being harassed by police</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/16/final-exit-network-members-being-harassed-by-police/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/16/final-exit-network-members-being-harassed-by-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 16:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regional coordinator of the Final Exit Network, I have had reports of members being harassed by local police in response to a directive by the Georgia State police. It seems the GSPD contacts the targeted State police (in one case NJ) , who in turn contacts local police departments, with the directive to visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Exit Network being harassed by law enforcement nationwide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/15/final-exit-network-being-harassed-by-law-enforcement-nationwide/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/15/final-exit-network-being-harassed-by-law-enforcement-nationwide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police Use Totalitarian Tactics to Shut Down Non-Profit
&#8211; press release
May 15, 2009
PHOENIX, Ariz. &#8211; Three more senior citizen volunteers from Final Exit Network, Inc., an organization of right-to-die activists, have been indicted in a widening effort by a small handful of local authorities to shut down the nationwide not-for-profit corporation&#8217;s advocacy program.
&#8220;These indictments are nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court refuses euthanasia, so woman ends her own painful life</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/27/court-refuses-euthanasia-so-woman-ends-her-own-painful-life/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/27/court-refuses-euthanasia-so-woman-ends-her-own-painful-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A severely disfigured French woman, found dead
this month after a court rejected her request for euthanasia, took a
lethal overdose of barbiturates, a prosecutor said on Thursday.

Former schoolteacher Chantal Sebire, 52, suffered from a rare and
incurable tumour which severely deformed her face and caused her to lose
the sense of smell, taste and finally her eyesight.

Her [...]]]></description>
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