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		<title>Helium deaths do not involve gagging say observers</title>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/03/right-to-choose-to-die-movement-has-bible-book-says-magazine/#comments</comments>
		<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>Individuals should decide on the extent of their suffering &#8212; Ted Goodwin</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/03/18/individuals-should-decide-on-the-extent-of-their-suffering-ted-goodwin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted Goodwin, one of the four persons charged by Georgia police with assisting a suicide, told the Associated Press on 03.17.09:
&#8220;We believe that it is the right of every mentally competent adult to determine whether he or she is suffering,&#8221; Goodwin said. &#8220;We do not believe this should be left to the physicians, church leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British legal system bending on assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/02/19/british-legal-system-bending-on-assisted-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times of London columnist Libby Purves made this pithy comment 2.20.09:
&#8216;The Swiss have, in their bland and unemphatic way, driven a coach and horses through law, custom and ethical debate in post-Christian Britain. Since 1998 Dignitas, with its unique willingness to accept foreign “members”, has made it hard to hold the line against assisted suicide. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK MS victim loses assisted suicide court case but the law is clearer</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/02/19/uk-ms-victim-loses-assisted-suicide-court-case-but-the-law-is-clearer/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/02/19/uk-ms-victim-loses-assisted-suicide-court-case-but-the-law-is-clearer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debbie Purdy, 45, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, wanted to know if her husband, the Cuban violinist Omar Puente, would be prosecuted if he helped her travel to die in a country where it is legal. Under British law, aiding and abetting suicide is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
But the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED INFORMATION: More ways to get the helium hood kits</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/01/02/update-more-ways-to-get-the-helium-hood-kits/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/01/02/update-more-ways-to-get-the-helium-hood-kits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Information for terminally ill or hopelessly physically ill, competent adults
 ‘Last Rights Publications’ in Canada went out of business some time ago,  just after the 3rd edition of Final Exit was published.  So ignore the information at the bottom of page 140 of my book about where to buy the helium hood kit. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Final Exit&#8217; always available as an eBook</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/10/13/final-exit-always-available-as-an-ebook/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/10/13/final-exit-always-available-as-an-ebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Final Exit&#8217; third edition, including the Addendum, and completely up-to-date, has been available for digital download eBook since 2007. Easy to read type, and amply illustrated. The gold standard in &#8216;how-to&#8217; books, sold over a million in 12 languages.
Visit www.finalexit.org/ergo-store
&#8211;Derek Humphry, Oregon
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		<title>Swiss euthanasia policies to be reviewed</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/07/07/swiss-euthanasia-policies-to-be-reviewed/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/07/07/swiss-euthanasia-policies-to-be-reviewed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Swiss Cabinet is set to clarify whether the rules for Switzerland&#8217;s assisted suicide organisations need to be updated.
In particular, it will look at issues relating to the care, counselling and documentation that euthanasia groups provide people seeking to end their lives. It will also discuss whether groups should be permitted to help healthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis of a helium death</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2007/12/16/analysis-of-a-helium-death/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2007/12/16/analysis-of-a-helium-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For general information:
Asphyxial Suicide by Inhalation of Helium Inside a Plastic Bag.
Case Report
American Journal of Forensic Medicine &#038; Pathology. 28(4):364-367,
December 2007.
Schon, Corinna Ariane MD; Ketterer, Thomas MD
Abstract: Asphyxial suicide by placing a plastic bag over the head, especially in
combination with inhalation of gases, is a rarely described method of committing suicide. This article reports a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helium hood method now the way for assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2007/12/09/helium-hood-method-now-the-way-for-assisted-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2007/12/09/helium-hood-method-now-the-way-for-assisted-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vancouver Sun reported on 8 Dec 07 that the helium in an &#8216;exit bag&#8217; is new choice for assisted suicide for patients who are dying or suffering from an end-stage incurable illness.  
Criminologist Russel Ogden said that at least 19 people
in B.C. have committed suicide by using helium since 1999, according tostatistics compiled [...]]]></description>
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