<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Assisted-Suicide Blog &#187; right to die</title>
	<atom:link href="http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/tag/right-to-die/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog</link>
	<description>Weblog of Derek Humphry, Founder of Hemlock Society</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:53:37 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/09/final-exit-network-accused-of-being-a-criminal-enterprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hemlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD Organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Deliverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide (rational)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dignitas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia prosecutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physician assisted death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physician-assisted suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Goodwin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=698</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/09/final-exit-network-accused-of-being-a-criminal-enterprise/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/04/oregon-physician-assisted-suicide-deaths-remain-steady/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hemlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide (rational)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assisted death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choice in dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death With Dignity Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derek Humphry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dignitas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hemlock society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=694</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/04/oregon-physician-assisted-suicide-deaths-remain-steady/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derek Humphry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hemlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publications/InternetMedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD Organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Deliverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide (rational)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assisted death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choice in dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[euthanasia and assisted death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helium Method]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helium suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hemlock society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physician-assisted suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to die]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=688</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/03/03/right-to-choose-to-die-movement-has-bible-book-says-magazine/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>UK writer calls for &#8216;euthanasia booths&#8217; at street corners</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/01/24/uk-writer-calls-for-euthanasia-booths-at-street-corners/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/01/24/uk-writer-calls-for-euthanasia-booths-at-street-corners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mercy Killing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Pieces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Deliverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide (rational)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[euthanasia laws]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin Amis, the British novelist, has called for euthanasia booths in every street corner  for pensioners to end their lives.
Britain is facing a demographic timebomb as its ageing population places an impossible burden on society, the controversial writer claimed.
Anti-euthanasia campaigners reacted with horror to the call for &#8216;death booths&#8217; for pensioners and branded Amis [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/01/24/uk-writer-calls-for-euthanasia-booths-at-street-corners/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/31/montana-becomes-3rd-us-state-permitting-physician-assisted-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derek Humphry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hemlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD Organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death With Dignity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Kevorkian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[euthanasia laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physician-assisted suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terminal illness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/31/montana-becomes-3rd-us-state-permitting-physician-assisted-suicide/</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/31/montana-becomes-3rd-us-state-permitting-physician-assisted-suicide/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>New Final Exit Network&#8217;s newsletter discusses law on helping to die</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/16/new-final-exit-networks-newsletter-discusses-law-on-helping-to-die/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/16/new-final-exit-networks-newsletter-discusses-law-on-helping-to-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derek Humphry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD Organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Deliverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide (rational)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death With Dignity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-delivance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terminal illness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For an update on the legal position of the 8 volunteers of the Final Exit Network facing prosecutions in Georgia and Arizona read the December 09 issue, just out, of the Final Exit Network&#8217;s newsletter on the web at this link
http://www.finalexitnetwork.org/Newsletters-12-09-on/Final_Exit_Newsletter_Vol_6_No_1-3%20for%20Web.pdf
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/16/new-final-exit-networks-newsletter-discusses-law-on-helping-to-die/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Guidelines for an approach to Dignitas in Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/03/guidelines-for-an-approach-to-dignitas-in-switzerland/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/03/guidelines-for-an-approach-to-dignitas-in-switzerland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derek Humphry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hemlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD Organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide (rational)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assisted death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dignitas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dignitas switzerland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humphry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terminal illness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DIGNITAS will help foreign visitors  to die in cases which they feel justified because of the terminal and hopeless suffering.  The person must be a competent adult. 
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/08/03/guidelines-for-an-approach-to-dignitas-in-switzerland/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Five key right-to-die informational documents available free</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/07/09/five-key-right-to-die-informational-documents-available-free/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/07/09/five-key-right-to-die-informational-documents-available-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derek Humphry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death With Dignity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dignitas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[euthanasia and assisted death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hemlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humphry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to die]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may care to look at my documents on the new internet publishing system called &#8216;Scribd&#8217;.  A Living Will, history of Hemlock, student&#8217;s briefing, and so on. All free!   Go to
http://www.scribd.com/FinalExit

&#8212;&#8211;Derek Humphry, Oregon

]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/07/09/five-key-right-to-die-informational-documents-available-free/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derek Humphry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Deliverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide (rational)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assisted suicide laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humphry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physician assisted death]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=590</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/06/26/swiss-doctors-compassion-lands-him-in-prison/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exit Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTD Organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Deliverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide (rational)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to die]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death With Dignity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helium suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hemlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humphry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physician-assisted suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terminal illness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=582</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/06/14/help-the-final-exit-network-defend-your-right-to-choose-to-die/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
