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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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		<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>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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		<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>Luxembourg legalises voluntary euthanasia</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/03/17/luxembourg-legalises-voluntary-euthanasia/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/03/17/luxembourg-legalises-voluntary-euthanasia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Detailed polling in Washington State on physician-assisted suicide for the dying</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/11/11/detailed-polling-in-washington-state-on-physician-assisted-suicide-for-the-dying/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/11/11/detailed-polling-in-washington-state-on-physician-assisted-suicide-for-the-dying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who like to see actual, final polling figures in Washington  State on November 4, 2008, here they are&#8230;
The question to the electorate was this:
&#8220;Initiative Measure 1000 concerns allowing certain terminally ill  competent adults to obtain lethal prescriptions&#8221;
Result:
YES   1,599,797   (57.91 percent)
NO    1,162,742   (42.09 percent)
Total votes:  2,762,539
Of the three initiatives on the Washington [...]]]></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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