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		<title>TV anchor&#8217;s assisted suicide at Dignitas shocks Israel</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/08/16/916/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Radio Switzerland reported 16 August 2011: TV host&#8217;s assisted suicide in Zurich shines light on taboo in Israel Assisted suicide is a topic that often gets coverage in Switzerland’s national media, but in Israel, the subject is taboo. In recent days, that taboo has been brought into the open, following news that a high-profile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss government sticks with assisted suicide laws</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/06/29/swiss-government-sticks-with-assisted-suicide-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/06/29/swiss-government-sticks-with-assisted-suicide-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Swiss government has dropped a plan to impose stricter rules for assisted suicide. Switzerland has long permitted “passive assisted suicide,” where someone can give another person the means to kill themselves provided the helper doesn’t personally benefit from the death. The government said Wednesday that existing laws provide enough safeguards to prevent abuse without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shock waves in UK over an elderly suicide</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/04/03/shock-waves-in-uk-over-an-elderly-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/04/03/shock-waves-in-uk-over-an-elderly-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nan Maitland, a founder of a group supporting elderly suicide, has taken her life to avoid prolonged suffering in her old age. She suffered from severe arthritis. Maitland, born in 1926, used to live in Kent, where she brought up her three children before moving to London 40 years ago. She dispensed advice on suicide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated info on the work of Dignitas in Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/04/12/updated-info-on-the-work-of-dignitas-in-switzerland/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/04/12/updated-info-on-the-work-of-dignitas-in-switzerland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U P D A T E THE POSIBILITY OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE FOR THE TERMINALLY OR HOPELESSLY ILL, COMPETENT, ADULT PERSON IN SWITZERLAND Issued by ERGO for information only Physician-assisted suicide is legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Colombia, Albania, Switzerland, and the US states of Washington, Montana and Oregon. All have their own criteria. Except [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dignitas in Switzerland buys a house</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/11/20/631/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/11/20/631/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a long and extremely interesting article in the Guardian in London. Worth reading. To read it, go to (you may need to copy/paste this URL) http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/18/assisted-suicide-dignitas-house &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Inside the Dignitas house More than 1,000 people have traveled to Switzerland to end their lives. But what is it really like inside the world&#8217;s first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss assisted suicide groups under government pressure</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/10/29/swiss-assisted-suicide-groups-under-government-pressure/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/10/29/swiss-assisted-suicide-groups-under-government-pressure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Switzerland has announced plans to crack down on so-called &#8216;suicide tourism&#8217; by signalling that it might close the Dignitas clinic that has helped hundreds of terminally ill people to end their lives. The plans, in the form of two draft Bills that will be offered for public debate, are likely to set off a rush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bid to restrict assisted suicide in Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/08/18/bid-to-restrict-assisted-suicide-in-switzerland/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.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://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/08/03/guidelines-for-an-approach-to-dignitas-in-switzerland/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.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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		<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>New novel advocates voluntary euthanasia for the dying</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2008/02/27/new-novel-advocates-voluntary-euthanasia-for-the-dying/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2008/02/27/new-novel-advocates-voluntary-euthanasia-for-the-dying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the author of a new novel titled SOUVENIR, which is out now from Random House/Ballantine Books. My novel, which centers on a woman who has ALS, in not any kind of how-to, position on the matter of terminally ill individuals&#8217; right to end their lives on their own terms. info at http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345499684 My interest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon is the most secular state</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2008/02/26/oregon-is-the-most-secular-state/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2008/02/26/oregon-is-the-most-secular-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question is often raised as to why Oregon is the only state in the USA to pass a law (Death With Dignity Act, 1994) allowing physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Part of the answer lies in that fewer Oregonians go to church, and this is again confirmed. A study released Monday by the [...]]]></description>
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