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	<description>Weblog of Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society &#38; author of Final Exit, serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults for 30 years</description>
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		<title>Final Exit Network wins Georgia court case</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2012/02/06/final-exit-network-wins-georgia-court-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press release GEORGIA HIGH COURT EXONERATES FINAL EXIT NETWORK’S VOLUNTEERS ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb. 6, 2012 — The Supreme Court of Georgia today struck down the state’s assisted-suicide law, abruptly terminating the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s prosecution of four Final Exit Network right-to-die activists. The state high court agreed with the 3,000-member, national not-for-profit organization’s argument [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stand up for Sharlotte Hydorn</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2012/01/19/stand-up-for-sharlotte-hydorn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re: United States v. Sharlotte Hydorn Victims Rights and Restitution Act If you are one of those persons who recently received a &#8216;victim letter&#8217; from the US Department of Justice in connection with Ms Sharlotte Hydorn, of California, who used to supply helium hood kits upon request, I suggest that you respond to it this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US suicide-kit seller pleads guilty of tax fraud</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/12/03/us-suicide-kit-seller-pleads-guilty-of-tax-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assisted-dying.org/blog/?p=982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A 91-year-old Californian woman has pleaded guilty to failing to file federal tax returns for her company that made and sold helium hood kits. They were intended for the terminally ill to bring their lives to a speedy end if they wished. Sharlotte Hydorn admitted paying no tax on $66,717 (£42,775) of income in 2010. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assisted suicide law is a contradiction, Final Exit Network argues</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/11/08/assisted-suicide-law-is-a-contradition-final-exit-network-argues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawyers for the Final Exit Network argued before the state Supreme Court on Monday that Georgia&#8217;s assisted suicide law is &#8220;irrational&#8221; because it allows someone to assist in a suicide but not to publicly advertise or offer that help, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. But Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit District Attorney Penny Penn argued that the law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia does not criminalize physician-assisted suicide provided it is not publicized</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/11/06/georgia-does-not-criminalize-physician-assisted-suicide-provided-it-is-not-publicized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[QUIETLY, GEORGIA BECOMES FOURTH STATE TO LEGALIZE PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE By Robert Rivas, General Counsel, Final Exit Network, Tallahassee, Florida ATLANTA, Georgia — Without fanfare, Georgia has become the fourth state in the United States to legalize physician-assisted suicide, the attorney general of Georgia disclosed in a brief before the Supreme Court of Georgia. Until now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Supreme Court to hear appeal in the Final Exit Network case</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/11/02/georgia-supreme-court-to-hear-appeal-in-the-final-exit-network-case/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/11/02/georgia-supreme-court-to-hear-appeal-in-the-final-exit-network-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgia&#8217;s highest court is set to review an appeal by four members of a suicide group charged with helping a cancer-stricken man kill himself. The Georgia Supreme Court is set to hear the arguments Monday, reports A.P. The four were indicted by a Forsyth County grand jury in March 2010. They pleaded not guilty to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Kevorkian&#8217;s suicide machine fails to sell</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/10/29/dr-kevorkians-suicide-machine-fails-to-sell/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/10/29/dr-kevorkians-suicide-machine-fails-to-sell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday&#8217;s estate sale of Jack Kevorkian&#8217;s personal possessions included a variety of items, from his plastic hair comb (didn&#8217;t sell) to the initial design prototype for his Thanatron &#8220;death machine.&#8221; It had been estimated to sell for $100,000 to $200,000, but the highest bid was $65,000, said the auction firm handling the sale. Little of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public speakers on the right to choose to die</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/10/11/public-speakers-on-the-right-to-choose-to-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KEYNOTE SPEAKER Derek Humphry, founder of the original Hemlock Society USA in l980, was the keynote speaker at the 2011 annual meeting of Compassion and Choices of Washington state on Saturday, October 22. A journalist and author, Humphry is well known as the author of the bestselling books &#8216;Jean&#8217;s Way&#8217; and &#8216;Final Exit&#8217;. There were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heads up on current right to die matters</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/09/02/heads-up-on-current-right-to-die-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/09/02/heads-up-on-current-right-to-die-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two matters which might (or might not) affect you: #1. The FBI is still pressing local police and Interpol to visit persons who have been in contact with the GLADD Group, in Southern California, over helium hood kits. New York police, for instance, have made some &#8216;wellness checks&#8217; six weeks ago, and again in recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Britain allowed assisted suicide for the dying, says expert</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/08/30/time-britain-allowed-assisted-suicide-for-the-dying-says-expert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terminally ill patients should receive medical help to commit suicide if they want to die, a [UK] government adviser has said. Martin Green, a social care expert for the Department of Health, said those who were physically unable to end their own lives were being deprived of &#8220;choice&#8221; and &#8220;autonomy&#8221; in Britain where assisted suicide [...]]]></description>
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