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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>
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		<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>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>
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		<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>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>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>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/12/refresher-info-on-how-right-to-die-laws-stand-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=614</guid>
		<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>A new memoir regarding the life of Derek Humphry</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/07/24/301/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/07/24/301/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Derek Humphry, journalist and author, founder of the Hemlock Society USA, has written a memoir of his life in England  during World War 11, his career in journalism on the London Sunday Times and the Los Angeles Times, and how he came to launch Hemlock.  Author of five books on euthanasia, this is [...]]]></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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		<title>New novel advocates voluntary euthanasia for the dying</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/02/27/new-novel-advocates-voluntary-euthanasia-for-the-dying/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/02/27/new-novel-advocates-voluntary-euthanasia-for-the-dying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the author of a new novel titled SOUVENIR,
which is out now from Random House/Ballantine Books.
My novel, which centers on a woman who has ALS, in not any kind of how-to, position on the matter of terminally ill individuals&#8217; right to end their
lives on their own terms.  
info at
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345499684 
 My interest in the [...]]]></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>
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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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