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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>
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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>Don&#8217;t get caught out by legislative actions</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2012/03/04/dont-get-caught-out-by-legislative-actions/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2012/03/04/dont-get-caught-out-by-legislative-actions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A valuable web site from the Death With Dignity National Center outlines the current stages of various &#8216;right-to-die&#8217; or opposing bills now in front of American legislatures. Worth visiting at http://www.deathwithdignity.org/advocates/national/]]></description>
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		<title>How to obtain the best documentary yet made on assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2012/02/16/how-to-obtain-the-best-documentary-yet-made-on-assisted-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2012/02/16/how-to-obtain-the-best-documentary-yet-made-on-assisted-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How to die in Oregon&#8221; a video by Peter Richardson The DVD of this prize-winning documentary is now available to order OUTSIDE the US and Canada. Here&#8217;s the link to order: http://www.filmbaby.com/films/5819 ==== To order WITHIN the USA and Canada, go to the DVD distributor&#8217;s webpage: http://bit.ly/sIn4JK ===== NOTE: This is not an ERGO project, [...]]]></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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		<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>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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=843</guid>
		<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>Right wingers claiming all who use the Oregon law are mentally ill</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/03/23/right-wingers-claiming-all-who-use-the-oregon-law-are-mentally-ill/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/03/23/right-wingers-claiming-all-who-use-the-oregon-law-are-mentally-ill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine conservative Oregon legislators have introduced legislation to undermine the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. They want to enact an assumption that any terminally ill patient who requests aid in dying is mentally unfit. It is House Bill 2016. (It failed to get out of committee.) No evidence exists that any patient with impaired judgment [...]]]></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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		<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>Final Exit Network accused of being a criminal enterprise</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/03/09/final-exit-network-accused-of-being-a-criminal-enterprise/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/03/09/final-exit-network-accused-of-being-a-criminal-enterprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Georgia, a Forsyth County Grand jury said four members of the right-to-die group, the Final Exit Network, operated a criminal enterprise that helped people die. An indictment returned Tuesday charges the Final Exit Network along with co-founder Thomas &#8220;Ted&#8221; Goodwin, 64, of Kennesaw and Punta Gorda, Fla.; Claire Blehr, 77, of Atlanta; and Dr. [...]]]></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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