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		<title>Dignitas in Switzerland buys a house</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/11/20/631/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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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>&#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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=603</guid>
		<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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		<title>Guidelines for an approach to Dignitas in Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/03/guidelines-for-an-approach-to-dignitas-in-switzerland/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/03/guidelines-for-an-approach-to-dignitas-in-switzerland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DIGNITAS will help foreign visitors  to die in cases which they feel justified because of the terminal and hopeless suffering.  The person must be a competent adult. 
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=595</guid>
		<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>Danger of underdose with Mexican vet. Nembutal</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/10/danger-of-underdose-with-mexican-vet-nembutal/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/10/danger-of-underdose-with-mexican-vet-nembutal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 03:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of talk recently of getting from Mexico bottles of veterinary Nembutal for self-deliverance. 
Some reports claim one bottle is enough. True, one bottle of veterinary Nembutal  (6 gms) will end the life of a frail, elderly person already close to death, but a physically strong person, healthy in all [...]]]></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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