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	<title>Assisted-Suicide Blog &#187; terminal illness</title>
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		<title>Dr Nitschke says he&#8217;ll be selling Nembutal pill next year</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/30/dr-nitschke-says-hell-be-selling-nembutal-pill-next-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A single solid pill for a peaceful death has been developed by Exit International.
The pill  that is made from a stable inert form of the barbiturate Nembutal has been developed for long term storage and transport. To use the pill to achieve a peaceful death, the pill is altered into the soluble active drug [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<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>&#8216;Final Exit&#8217; book remains challenged for nearly 20 years</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/09/26/611/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/09/26/611/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Final Exit&#8217; was honored by the American Library Associations Top 100 List of Banned Books as one of the most frequently challenged books in America for 1990 &#8211; 1999.  It came in at # 29.
Ten years later, it remains on the list of most commonly-challenged books in the United States, according to the A [...]]]></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>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>
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		<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. 
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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>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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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>Final Exit Network members being harassed by police</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/16/final-exit-network-members-being-harassed-by-police/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/16/final-exit-network-members-being-harassed-by-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 16:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As regional coordinator of the Final Exit Network, I have had reports of members being harassed by local police in response to a directive by the Georgia State police. It seems the GSPD contacts the targeted State police (in one case NJ) , who in turn contacts local police departments, with the directive to visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danger of underdose with Mexican vet. Nembutal</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/10/danger-of-underdose-with-mexican-vet-nembutal/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/05/10/danger-of-underdose-with-mexican-vet-nembutal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 03:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of talk recently of getting from Mexico bottles of veterinary Nembutal for self-deliverance. 
Some reports claim one bottle is enough. True, one bottle of veterinary Nembutal  (6 gms) will end the life of a frail, elderly person already close to death, but a physically strong person, healthy in all [...]]]></description>
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