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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assisted-dying.org/blog/?p=1027</guid>
		<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>Most Canadians support assisted suicide, poll finds</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/12/30/most-canadians-support-assisted-suicide-poll-finds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assisted-dying.org/blog/?p=998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At least two-thirds of Canadians support assisted suicide, according to a Forum Research poll for the National Post. The poll found 67 per cent of Canadians favor legalizing doctor-assisted suicide of terminally ill patients. In Ontario only 60 per cent of residents agreed. The poll shows support is highest among men and respondents under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contributions to ERGO are requested</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/12/07/987/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assisted-dying.org/blog/?p=987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[End-of-year appeal by ERGO I know everybody is currently asking you for money, and these are difficult times, but if you care about the right to choose to die please think of ERGO (Euthanasia Research &#038; Guidance Org) in your gift-giving this month. We are a tiny organization but still have weighty outgoings concerning technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where physician-assisted suicide laws stand now (2011)</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/11/19/where-physician-assisted-suicide-laws-stand-now-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/11/19/where-physician-assisted-suicide-laws-stand-now-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assisted-dying.org/blog/?p=973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RIGHT-TO-DIE PROGRESS IN THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY Various forms of medically assisted dying and/or assisted suicide for the terminally or hopelessly ill competent adult have been approved by 2011 in the following eleven states and nations. Each has its own rules and guidelines. All but Switzerland and Colombia forbid foreigners coming for this type [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/11/08/assisted-suicide-law-is-a-contradition-final-exit-network-argues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assisted-dying.org/blog/?p=969</guid>
		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assisted-dying.org/blog/?p=953</guid>
		<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>Launch of new pamphlet on how to make a helium hood kit yourself</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/10/07/launch-of-new-pamphlet-on-how-to-make-a-helium-hood-kit-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How To Make Your Own Helium Hood Kit Information for competent adults who are terminally or hopelessly ill and wish to die 2011 Addendum to Chapter 23 of Final Exit book &#038; Final Exit on DVD By Derek Humphry Published October 2011 10 Pages • PDF * Price: $5.00 Available ONLY through the ERGO Bookstore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK prosecutor says no assisted suicide cases worthy of charges have reached him</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/09/07/uk-prosecutor-says-no-assisted-suicide-cases-worthy-of-charges-have-reached-him/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/09/07/uk-prosecutor-says-no-assisted-suicide-cases-worthy-of-charges-have-reached-him/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Crown Prosecution Service [in England] has not implemented a &#8220;blanket policy&#8221; banning the prosecution of cases of assisted suicide, its head has insisted. The Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer admitted that no prosecutions had been brought for the offense since new CPS guidelines were issued 18 months ago. But he said after personally [...]]]></description>
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