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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
		<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>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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/07/debate-on-assisted-suicide-in-uk-hots-up-around-drnitschke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 17:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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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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		<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>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<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>Belgium woman, 93, gets the help to die that she wanted</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/04/04/belgium-woman-93-gets-the-help-to-die-that-she-wanted/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/04/04/belgium-woman-93-gets-the-help-to-die-that-she-wanted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 93-year-old Belgian woman has died after going on a 10-day hunger strike last month to force doctors to help her die, her family said. ]]></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>The Right to Choose to Die &#8212; not yet in France</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/20/the-right-to-choose-to-die-not-yet-in-france/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/20/the-right-to-choose-to-die-not-yet-in-france/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The simultaneous deaths of the writer Hugo Claus in Belgium and Chantal Sébire in France are a demonstration that our goal is not the choice between life and death,but between 2 different ways of dying.
Hugo Claus was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and decided to leave on his own terms at the moment he chose and before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American groups which may give help with dying</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/18/american-groups-which-may-give-help-with-dying/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/18/american-groups-which-may-give-help-with-dying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times health section carried this article on 18 March 08:
Terminal Options for the Irreversibly Ill,   By JANE E. BRODY
My Feb. 5 column, “A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit,” prompted a deluge of information and requests for information on how people too sick to reap meaningful pleasure from life might [...]]]></description>
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