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		<title>Final Exit Network accused of being a criminal enterprise</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/09/final-exit-network-accused-of-being-a-criminal-enterprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Georgia, a Forsyth County Grand jury said four members of the right-to-die group, the Final Exit Network, operated a criminal enterprise that helped people die.
An indictment returned Tuesday charges the Final Exit Network along with co-founder Thomas &#8220;Ted&#8221; Goodwin, 64, of Kennesaw and Punta Gorda, Fla.; Claire Blehr, 77, of Atlanta; and Dr. Lawrence [...]]]></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>Right to die documentary film up for Oscar prize</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/02/02/right-to-die-documentary-film-up-for-oscar-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the nominations for Oscars in the  short documentary category announced in Hollywood today is
&#8211; &#8220;The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner,&#8221; from Just Media, which is a portrait of the former governor of the state of Washington who led a campaign on behalf of the state&#8217;s Death with Dignity Act, which permits assisted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lyrics to the new rock song &#8216;Final Exit&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/01/06/lyrics-to-the-new-rock-song-final-exit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ERGO would like to draw your attention to a music track due to be released by the hard rock band Fear Factory, titled &#8216;Final Exit&#8217;.  
Quietly voiced at the very beginning of the song are the words &#8220;Final Exit &#8211; The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying&#8221;, the exact title of [...]]]></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>
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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>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>Help the Final Exit Network defend your right to choose to die</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/06/14/help-the-final-exit-network-defend-your-right-to-choose-to-die/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/06/14/help-the-final-exit-network-defend-your-right-to-choose-to-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense fund started for the 7 workers of the Final Exit Network who were present when people took their lives to escape further suffering.]]></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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/31/police-swoop-on-home-of-final-exit-network-worker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 23:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Dutch court jails euthanasia group chairman for aiding suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/30/dutch-court-jails-euthanasia-group-chairman-for-aiding-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/30/dutch-court-jails-euthanasia-group-chairman-for-aiding-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Dutch court sentenced the chairman of an assisted suicide lobby group on 29 May to 10 months in jail, eight suspended, for helping a sick, 80-year-old woman kill herself.
The woman died in November 2007 after taking a lethal dose of pentobarbital, which prosecutors said was supplied to her children by the lobbyist after doctors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate on assisted suicide in UK hots up around Dr.Nitschke</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/07/debate-on-assisted-suicide-in-uk-hots-up-around-drnitschke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 17:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of us in America are fascinated by the British reaction to Dr. Philip Nitschke&#8217;s current tour of Britain.  I write as a citizen of the UK and USA and a &#8216;right to die&#8217; watcher for 30 years.
The British public is fed up with its government&#8217;s refusal to modify the laws on assisted suicide. [...]]]></description>
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