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	<title>Assisted-Dying Blog &#187; what is assisted suicide</title>
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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>Can an Alzheimer&#8217;s victim end their own life?</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/01/10/can-an-alzheimers-victim-end-their-own-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Derek Humphry By far the worst and most wrenching dilemma in the field of a person&#8217;s right to choose to die involves victims of Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease. Once the disease has got hold, are they ever able to make a decision about ending their life? Suicide is not a crime, but assistance in the act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lethal drugs in Mexico, Peru and Thailand &#8212; update</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/09/07/lethal-drugs-in-mexico-peru-and-thailand-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veterinary Nembutal (pentobarbital) can be bought over-the-counter in veterinary supply stores in Mexico and Peru. These little stores are generally in the backstreets of poorer neighborhoods. This substance is used for either sedating big animals including horses for surgery, or euthanizing them. It is tightly controlled everywhere except Mexico and Peru. The six grams of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Dutch group campaigns for legal elderly suicide</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/02/08/new-dutch-group-campaigns-for-legal-elderly-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch people over 70 years of age who feel tired of life should have the right to professional help in ending it, a citizens&#8217; initiative in the Netherlands calling itself &#8220;Out of Free Will&#8221; demands. It will start collecting signatures in support of this proposed change in Dutch legislation, hoping to place the matter firmly [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>Liberty and Death:  A manifesto</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/03/23/liberty-and-death-a-manifesto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty and Death A manifesto concerning an individual’s right to choose to die In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty –- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing. Whereas [...]]]></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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		<title>Luxemburg passes euthanasia law &#8212; follows Holland and Belgium</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2008/02/19/luxemburg-passes-euthanasia-law-follows-holland-and-belgium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is with a great pleasure that I inform you that today, February 19, 2008, that the Parliament of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has approved the bill Errr/Huss on de-criminalization of euthanasia. Now we can say that in the countries of Benelux (the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) do exist the right for patients to receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veterinarians should shun human euthanasia, says NZ chief vet.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press Release: New Zealand Veterinary Association Supply of euthanasia drug professional suicide, says Veterinary Association president Dr Philip Nitschke&#8217;s suggestion that a person could obtain a dangerous narcotic for human euthanasia from a veterinarian is a slur on the integrity and professionalism of veterinarians, says NZ Veterinary Association president John Maclachlan. &#8220;It is both illegal [...]]]></description>
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