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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>
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		<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>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>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<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>Dutch doctors&#8217; group urges wider reasons for euthanasia</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/09/09/dutch-doctors-group-urges-wider-reasons-for-euthanasia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assisted-dying.org/blog/?p=934</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new position paper just published by the Dutch Physicians Association (KNMG) says unbearable and lasting suffering should not be the only criteria physicians consider when a patient requests euthanasia. The KNMG says the new guidelines will clarify the responsibilities, possibilities and limitations that physicians have within the regulations of the 2002 euthanasia law (Termination [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/08/30/time-britain-allowed-assisted-suicide-for-the-dying-says-expert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Frank Langsner pleads guilty to minor offence in assisted suicide case</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/07/19/frank-langsner-pleads-guilty-to-minor-offence-in-assisted-suicide-case/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/07/19/frank-langsner-pleads-guilty-to-minor-offence-in-assisted-suicide-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX, Ariz. — The last of the four criminal cases in Phoenix has been resolved without a trial. The jury was unable to reach a verdict during the trial last April of Final Exit Network volunteer exit guide Frankin R. Langsner, of Scottsdale, a suburb of Phoenix. A retrial had been scheduled to take place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be pleasant when law enforcement calls re GLADD kits</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/06/15/be-pleasant-when-law-enforcement-calls-re-gladd-kits/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/06/15/be-pleasant-when-law-enforcement-calls-re-gladd-kits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RE POLICE VISITS TO PERSONS WHO WERE CUSTOMERS OF GLADD The purpose of the police or sheriff making &#8216;wellness visits&#8217; is to find out if a person has taken their life, or intending to. Such visits are lawful under US health laws; they are not criminal inquiries because suicide is not a crime. A person [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon PAS law won&#8217;t be modified</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/04/07/oregon-pas-law-wont-be-modified/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/04/07/oregon-pas-law-wont-be-modified/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attempt by a few right-wingers to make everybody who uses the Oregon Death With Dignity Act for physician-assisted suicide take a mental health check first, has collapsed. The Eugene Register-Guard newspaper reports 7 April 2011, when surveying the present legislature&#8217;s work: &#8220;Some divisive bills don&#8217;t even make it to the public hearing stage. House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group in Colombia (S.America) guiding physician-assisted suicides</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/04/06/group-in-colombia-s-america-guiding-physician-assisted-suicides/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/04/06/group-in-colombia-s-america-guiding-physician-assisted-suicides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE Last Wish Granted, the Colombian organization that has been quietly referring their members in Colombia to physicians for end of life consultations, has accepted their first international member for a medical referral. Last Wish Granted follows the guidelines put in place by the Constitutional Court of Colombia&#8217;s C-239-97 decision which disallows criminal penalties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A death via the helium hood technique</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/03/21/a-death-via-the-helium-hood-technique/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/03/21/a-death-via-the-helium-hood-technique/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Eugene Register-Guard in Oregon carried a lengthy article on Sunday, 20 March, 2011, reporting the death of a man using a helium hood kit purchased from GLADD group in California. A rather sour article but informative to those who might not know about the background. Of course the death of this man is sad, [...]]]></description>
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