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		<title>UK writer calls for &#8216;euthanasia booths&#8217; at street corners</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/01/24/uk-writer-calls-for-euthanasia-booths-at-street-corners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Amis, the British novelist, has called for euthanasia booths in every street corner  for pensioners to end their lives.
Britain is facing a demographic timebomb as its ageing population places an impossible burden on society, the controversial writer claimed.
Anti-euthanasia campaigners reacted with horror to the call for &#8216;death booths&#8217; for pensioners and branded Amis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana becomes 3rd US state permitting physician-assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/31/montana-becomes-3rd-us-state-permitting-physician-assisted-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday (12.31.09) that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure.
Patients and doctors had been waiting for the state&#8217;s high court to step in after a lower court decided a year ago that constitutional rights to privacy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most dying patients in Holland prefer euthanasia to assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/01/most-dying-patients-in-holland-prefer-euthanasia-to-assisted-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/01/most-dying-patients-in-holland-prefer-euthanasia-to-assisted-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008 the Dutch controlling committees received 2331 declarations of which 2146 were cases of euthanasia, 152 cases of assisted suicide and 33 cases of a combination of the two.]]></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 
]]></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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		<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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		<title>Luxemburg euthanasia law close to passing</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/02/20/luxemburg-euthanasia-law-close-to-passing/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/02/20/luxemburg-euthanasia-law-close-to-passing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agence France Presse reported on 20 Feb 08:
Luxembourg to become third EU country to allow euthanasia
Luxembourg lawmakers have adopted a bill legalising euthanasia, priming
the Grand Duchy to become the third EU country allowing doctors to help
patients end their own lives.
The parliament passed the bill with only a slim majority with 30 out of
59 lawmakers voting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luxemburg passes euthanasia law &#8212; follows Holland and Belgium</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/02/19/luxemburg-passes-euthanasia-law-follows-holland-and-belgium/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/02/19/luxemburg-passes-euthanasia-law-follows-holland-and-belgium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is with a great pleasure that I inform you that today, February 19,
2008, that the Parliament of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has approved the
bill Errr/Huss on de-criminalization of euthanasia.
Now we can say that in the countries of Benelux (the Netherlands,
Belgium and Luxembourg) do exist the right for patients to receive the
medical assistance to make [...]]]></description>
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