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		<title>Contributions to ERGO are requested</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/12/07/987/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[End-of-year appeal by ERGO I know everybody is currently asking you for money, and these are difficult times, but if you care about the right to choose to die please think of ERGO (Euthanasia Research &#038; Guidance Org) in your gift-giving this month. We are a tiny organization but still have weighty outgoings concerning technical [...]]]></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>Georgia does not criminalize physician-assisted suicide provided it is not publicized</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/11/06/georgia-does-not-criminalize-physician-assisted-suicide-provided-it-is-not-publicized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assisted-dying.org/blog/?p=965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[QUIETLY, GEORGIA BECOMES FOURTH STATE TO LEGALIZE PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE By Robert Rivas, General Counsel, Final Exit Network, Tallahassee, Florida ATLANTA, Georgia — Without fanfare, Georgia has become the fourth state in the United States to legalize physician-assisted suicide, the attorney general of Georgia disclosed in a brief before the Supreme Court of Georgia. Until now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public speakers on the right to choose to die</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/10/11/public-speakers-on-the-right-to-choose-to-die/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/10/11/public-speakers-on-the-right-to-choose-to-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assisted-dying.org/blog/?p=944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[KEYNOTE SPEAKER Derek Humphry, founder of the original Hemlock Society USA in l980, was the keynote speaker at the 2011 annual meeting of Compassion and Choices of Washington state on Saturday, October 22. A journalist and author, Humphry is well known as the author of the bestselling books &#8216;Jean&#8217;s Way&#8217; and &#8216;Final Exit&#8217;. There were [...]]]></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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=890</guid>
		<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>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>
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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>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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		<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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