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	<title>Assisted-Suicide Blog &#187; Derek Humphry</title>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>
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		<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>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>New Final Exit Network&#8217;s newsletter discusses law on helping to die</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/16/new-final-exit-networks-newsletter-discusses-law-on-helping-to-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an update on the legal position of the 8 volunteers of the Final Exit Network facing prosecutions in Georgia and Arizona read the December 09 issue, just out, of the Final Exit Network&#8217;s newsletter on the web at this link
http://www.finalexitnetwork.org/Newsletters-12-09-on/Final_Exit_Newsletter_Vol_6_No_1-3%20for%20Web.pdf
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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>
		<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>&#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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		<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>Five key right-to-die informational documents available free</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/07/09/five-key-right-to-die-informational-documents-available-free/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/07/09/five-key-right-to-die-informational-documents-available-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may care to look at my documents on the new internet publishing system called &#8216;Scribd&#8217;.  A Living Will, history of Hemlock, student&#8217;s briefing, and so on. All free!   Go to
http://www.scribd.com/FinalExit

&#8212;&#8211;Derek Humphry, Oregon

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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>
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		<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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