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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
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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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		<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>
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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>Refresher info on how &#8216;right-to-die&#8217; laws stand now</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/12/refresher-info-on-how-right-to-die-laws-stand-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How ‘right-to-die’ stands in 2009 --
Where voluntary euthanasia (VE) and/or physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is now legally permitted under guidelines]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss doctor&#8217;s compassion lands him in prison</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/06/26/swiss-doctors-compassion-lands-him-in-prison/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/06/26/swiss-doctors-compassion-lands-him-in-prison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Peter Baumann (74) of Zurich has been sentenced to a 4 yr prison term for premeditated murder.  This was reported in Swiss newspapers in recent days.
Dr. Baumann&#8217;s case goes back to 2001 when he was charged with having abetted, aided and assisted in the suicide of a 47 yr old patient, who it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police swoop on home of Final Exit Network worker</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/31/police-swoop-on-home-of-final-exit-network-worker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 23:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police in Middlebury, Connecticut, say the death of an elderly woman last year, which was originally ruled to be natural causes, could be connected to the Final
Exit Network, a right-to-die organization.
Police received a tip from police in Georgia that led investigators to obtain a search warrant for an Old Saybrook home where they took computers [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Nurse backing for assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/04/22/nurse-backing-for-assisted-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two-thirds of nurses [in the UK] support the legalisation of assisted suicide, results of an Independent Nurse survey reveal.
Of 108 nurses who responded to the survey, 64 per cent said they thought assisted suicide should be legalised.
In addition, 67 per cent said that they thought that clinicians should be able to assist terminally ill patients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty and Death:  A manifesto</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/03/23/liberty-and-death-a-manifesto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty and Death
A manifesto concerning an individual’s right to choose to die
In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty –- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing.
Whereas modern medicine has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luxembourg legalises voluntary euthanasia</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/03/17/luxembourg-legalises-voluntary-euthanasia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luxembourg has become the third European Union country, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to decriminalise voluntary euthanasia. 
Terminally ill people will be able to have their lives ended after receiving the approval of two doctors and a panel of experts.
Last year, Luxembourg became embroiled in a constitutional crisis when Grand Duke Henri refused to sign [...]]]></description>
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