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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>
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		<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>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>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/09/09/dutch-doctors-group-urges-wider-reasons-for-euthanasia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>Prosecutors easing up on assisted suicide charges</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/12/15/prosecutors-easing-up-on-assisted-suicide-charges/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/12/15/prosecutors-easing-up-on-assisted-suicide-charges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mailonline in London reported 15 Dec 10: No charges in 20 assisted-suicide cases as public prosecution is accused of re-writing law By Steve Doughty The Director of Public Prosecutions [in England] has declined to bring charges against at least 20 people suspected of helping others to commit suicide, it was revealed yesterday. Keir Starmer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World conference hears latest developments in self-deliverance</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/10/07/world-conference-hears-latest-developments-in-self-deliverance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report of the NuTech Workshop at the World Conference of Right to Die Societies in Melbourne (NOTE: NuTech is short for &#8216;New Technologies for Self-Deliverance, founded 1999 as an international research group for new ways of ending one&#8217;s life without a doctor when terminally ill. NuTech invented the widely-used helium hood method.) By Faye Girsh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK writer calls for &#8216;euthanasia booths&#8217; at street corners</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/01/24/uk-writer-calls-for-euthanasia-booths-at-street-corners/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/01/24/uk-writer-calls-for-euthanasia-booths-at-street-corners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Amis, the British novelist, has called for euthanasia booths in every street corner for pensioners to end their lives. Britain is facing a demographic timebomb as its ageing population places an impossible burden on society, the controversial writer claimed. Anti-euthanasia campaigners reacted with horror to the call for &#8216;death booths&#8217; for pensioners and branded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana becomes 3rd US state permitting physician-assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/12/31/montana-becomes-3rd-us-state-permitting-physician-assisted-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.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>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most dying patients in Holland prefer euthanasia to assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/12/01/most-dying-patients-in-holland-prefer-euthanasia-to-assisted-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/12/01/most-dying-patients-in-holland-prefer-euthanasia-to-assisted-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2008 the Dutch controlling committees received 2331 declarations of which 2146 were cases of euthanasia, 152 cases of assisted suicide and 33 cases of a combination of the two.]]></description>
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		<title>Court refuses euthanasia, so woman ends her own painful life</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2008/03/27/court-refuses-euthanasia-so-woman-ends-her-own-painful-life/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2008/03/27/court-refuses-euthanasia-so-woman-ends-her-own-painful-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2008/03/27/court-refuses-euthanasia-so-woman-ends-her-own-painful-life/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A severely disfigured French woman, found dead this month after a court rejected her request for euthanasia, took a lethal overdose of barbiturates, a prosecutor said on Thursday. Former schoolteacher Chantal Sebire, 52, suffered from a rare and incurable tumour which severely deformed her face and caused her to lose the sense of smell, taste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Final Exit&#8217; book high in sales rankings</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2008/03/24/final-exit-book-high-in-sales-rankings-2/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2008/03/24/final-exit-book-high-in-sales-rankings-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hardcopy paperback &#8216;Final Exit&#8217; 3rd edition by Derek Humphry touched the 5,061 mark in Amazon.com&#8217;s sales listing today. You can download an even more up-to-date digitized edition at www.finalexit.org/ergo-store]]></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>
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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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