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	<title>Assisted-Suicide Blog &#187; choice in dying</title>
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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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		<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>
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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>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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		<title>&#8216;Final Exit&#8217; book high in sales rankings</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/24/final-exit-book-high-in-sales-rankings-2/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/24/final-exit-book-high-in-sales-rankings-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hardcopy paperback &#8216;Final Exit&#8217; 3rd edition by Derek Humphry touched the 5,061 mark in Amazon.com&#8217;s sales listing today.
You can download an even more up-to-date digitized edition at www.finalexit.org/ergo-store 
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		<title>The Right to Choose to Die &#8212; not yet in France</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/20/the-right-to-choose-to-die-not-yet-in-france/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/20/the-right-to-choose-to-die-not-yet-in-france/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The simultaneous deaths of the writer Hugo Claus in Belgium and Chantal Sébire in France are a demonstration that our goal is not the choice between life and death,but between 2 different ways of dying.
Hugo Claus was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and decided to leave on his own terms at the moment he chose and before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Jean&#8217;s Way&#8217; book now in Turkey &amp; Mexico</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/15/jeans-way-book-now-in-turkey-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/15/jeans-way-book-now-in-turkey-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/15/jeans-way-book-now-in-turkey-mexico/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ This week &#8220;Jean&#8217;s Way&#8221; appeared bookstores in Turkey in a
translation.   Next month it will also appear in Mexico for the first time.
It tells the story of my assisted suicide of my first wife, Jean, who
had late-stage terminal cancer.
Starting in London, this month &#8216;Jean&#8217;s Way&#8217; has been in continuous print
in English for 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New novel advocates voluntary euthanasia for the dying</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/02/27/new-novel-advocates-voluntary-euthanasia-for-the-dying/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/02/27/new-novel-advocates-voluntary-euthanasia-for-the-dying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the author of a new novel titled SOUVENIR,
which is out now from Random House/Ballantine Books.
My novel, which centers on a woman who has ALS, in not any kind of how-to, position on the matter of terminally ill individuals&#8217; right to end their
lives on their own terms.  
info at
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345499684 
 My interest in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon is the most secular state</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/02/26/oregon-is-the-most-secular-state/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/02/26/oregon-is-the-most-secular-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/02/26/oregon-is-the-most-secular-state/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The question is often raised as to why Oregon is the only state in the USA to pass a law (Death With Dignity Act, 1994) allowing physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill.  Part of the answer lies in that fewer Oregonians go to church, and this is again confirmed.
A study released Monday by the [...]]]></description>
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