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		<title>New Dutch group campaigns for legal elderly suicide</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/02/08/new-dutch-group-campaigns-for-legal-elderly-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dutch people over 70 years of age who feel tired of life should have the right to professional help in ending it, a citizens&#8217; initiative in the Netherlands calling itself &#8220;Out of Free Will&#8221; demands. It will start collecting signatures in support of this proposed change in Dutch legislation, hoping to place the matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman charged with smuggling Nembutal for euthanasia from Mexico</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/02/04/woman-charged-with-smuggling-nembutal-for-euthanasia-from-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A  woman has been charged with importing a euthanasia drug from Mexico into Australia. Two bottles of the border-controlled drug Nembutal were intercepted at Melbourne Airport last March.
Australian Federal Police officers executed a search warrant on an address in the eastern suburb of Canterbury on April 15, 2009 but the woman was not charged [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/02/02/right-to-die-documentary-film-up-for-oscar-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=680</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2010/01/06/lyrics-to-the-new-rock-song-final-exit/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<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>
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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>Exchanging news and views on euthanasia</title>
		<link>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/18/exchanging-news-and-views-on-euthanasia/</link>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/12/18/exchanging-news-and-views-on-euthanasia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ERGO’s death with dignity news digest list is available to you.  So if you have a serious and enduring interest in this subject, consider subscribing to ERGO’s emailing list.  (No charges.) Exchange news and views on a wide range of right-to-die topics. Only subscribe if you in principle support the right of a [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<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
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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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/30/dr-nitschke-says-hell-be-selling-nembutal-pill-next-year/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2009/10/12/refresher-info-on-how-right-to-die-laws-stand-now/#comments</comments>
		<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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