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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 will fight new charges against its volunteers</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2012/05/14/final-exit-network-will-fight-new-charges-against-its-volunteers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 01:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE from the Final Exit Network May 14, 2012 MINNESOTA PROSECUTOR OBTAINS GRAND JURY INDICTMENT OF FINAL EXIT NETWORK AND FOUR OF ITS VOLUNTEERS HASTINGS, Minnesota — James Backstrom, the Dakota County prosecutor, called a press conference to deny that he has initiated a war on the right-to-die movement by securing a 17-count indictment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No evidence helium tanks have been adulterated</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2012/01/28/no-evidence-helium-tanks-have-been-adulterated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After researching the development and use of the helium self-deliverance method for five years as NuTech&#8217;s unofficial historian, I can assure readers of this blog of two things with certainty: 1. The &#8220;party balloon kit&#8221; helium tanks contain 100.00% helium, with no other gases. 2. Misstatements to the contrary have no basis whatsoever in fact, [...]]]></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>
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		<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>New publications from Derek Humphry about self-deliverance</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/10/25/new-publications-from-derek-humphry-about-self-deliverance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two new internet publications from Derek Humphry: &#8220;How to Make Your Own Helium Hood Kit.&#8221; Pamphlet. Illustrated. $5. Download pdf &#8220;Beyond Final Exit: Lessons Learned&#8221; Mini ebook. $5 Download pdf Save them to your computer, also print your own copy. Go to www.finalexit.org]]></description>
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		<title>The use of helium hood kits is defended</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/06/28/the-use-of-helium-hood-kits-is-defended/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/06/28/the-use-of-helium-hood-kits-is-defended/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[LETTERS IN AN EDITOR’S MAILBAG Published in the Eugene Register-Guard, Oregon, Jun 28, 2011 Right-to-die is gaining ground The Oregon Legislature has taken a backhoe to crush a hen’s egg in the case of the helium hood kits for sale. Dozens of Oregonians have already stocked up with their kits. What the legislators, the FBI [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police at FBI bidding busy interviewing GLADD customers</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/06/13/police-at-fbi-bidding-busy-interviewing-gladd-customers/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/06/13/police-at-fbi-bidding-busy-interviewing-gladd-customers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The FBI is asking police throughout America to check up on people who have recently ordered helium hood kits from GLADD in southern California, run by Sharlotte Hydorn. So far we know of six cases. These are what the cops call &#8216;wellness checks&#8217; &#8211; actually to see if the person has [or about to] kill [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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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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		<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>Face masks do not work well in helium deaths</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/03/22/face-masks-do-not-work-well-in-helium-deaths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To read about the outcome of using face masks instead of plastic bags in self-deliverance from a terminal illness, read this paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics about testing done in Switzerland. J Med Ethics 2010;36:174-179 doi:10.1136/jme.2009.032490 * Law, ethics and medicine Assisted suicide by oxygen deprivation with helium at the Swiss right-to-die organisation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helium deaths do not involve gagging say observers</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/03/17/helium-deaths-do-not-involve-gagging-say-observers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re Newsweek article on Dr Larry Egbert in which a lawyer said this &#8220;The idea of someone gagging to death in a helium-filled hood is &#8220;ghoulish and frightening,&#8221; says Kathryn Tucker, legislative director for Compassion &#038; Choices. Which brought this response: I, as an Exit member since 2005, found that article very disturbing. I can [...]]]></description>
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