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	<title>Assisted-Suicide Blog &#187; Dignitas</title>
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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>
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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>Final Exit Network accused of being a criminal enterprise</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/09/final-exit-network-accused-of-being-a-criminal-enterprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Georgia, a Forsyth County Grand jury said four members of the right-to-die group, the Final Exit Network, operated a criminal enterprise that helped people die.
An indictment returned Tuesday charges the Final Exit Network along with co-founder Thomas &#8220;Ted&#8221; Goodwin, 64, of Kennesaw and Punta Gorda, Fla.; Claire Blehr, 77, of Atlanta; and Dr. Lawrence [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/04/oregon-physician-assisted-suicide-deaths-remain-steady/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>Taboo on mental health assisted suicides remains</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/25/taboo-on-mental-health-assisted-suicides-remains/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/25/taboo-on-mental-health-assisted-suicides-remains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Euthanasia still a taboo for mental patients &#8211; even in the Netherlands
    &#8220;People suffering from an incurable mental disease have the same legal right to euthanasia as physically terminally ill patients in the Netherlands, but they almost never get it.&#8221;
    Practitioners reviewed the situation of mental patients and euthanasia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dignitas in Switzerland buys a house</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/20/631/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/20/631/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a long and extremely interesting article in the Guardian in London. Worth reading.  To read it, go to  (you may need to copy/paste this URL)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/18/assisted-suicide-dignitas-house
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-
Inside the Dignitas house
More than 1,000 people have traveled to Switzerland to end their lives. But what is it really like inside the world&#8217;s first assisted suicide [...]]]></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>&#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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=611</guid>
		<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>Bid to restrict assisted suicide in Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/18/bid-to-restrict-assisted-suicide-in-switzerland/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/18/bid-to-restrict-assisted-suicide-in-switzerland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two popular initiatives, both dealing with assisted suicides,  have gathered enough signatures to call for a vote in canton Zurich, Switzerland. No date has been scheduled for the votes.
The first calls for the canton to allow assistance but only for people who have been resident in the canton for at least a year. The [...]]]></description>
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