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The judge in the extradition hearing concerning the Rev. George David Exoo will give his decision this coming Friday. October 26, 2007 The hearing will be at the federal building in Charleston, West Virginia. If the judge rules against Mr Exoo, he will be deported to Ireland to face criminal charges in Dublin alleging that […]

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Following the loss of her father earlier this year, Sharon Osbourne has made her own end-of-life plans, reports MSNBC.com. She and husband Ozzy have decided to choose their own ends should a mentally degenerative disease afflict either of them. ”I saw my father suffer from the day he came back into my life in 2002 […]

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The Associated Press reported: Assisted suicide research criticized: professor replies By William McCall, The Associated Press, October 1, 2007 PORTLAND – Doctor-assisted suicide in Oregon and The Netherlands does not result in more deaths among certain groups of terminally ill patients such as the poor or senior citizens, according to a controversial new study. The […]

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September 27, 2007 Dublin radio station 98FM wrote a new page in the history of Irish broadcasting. At 8:00 p.m., hosts Paul Connolly and Allison O’Reilly interviewed Derek Humphry, a distinguished journalist, founder of The Hemlock Society, and an international spokesman for the right-to-die movement. This episode of the call-in talk show, “The Inbox,” was […]

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Final Exit, Digital Edition 2007 (eBook PDF) The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society Revised 3rd edition in digital format, Updated July 2007 eBook PDF • 1MB • 214 pages ISBN 0-3853365-3-5 Price: $32.00 Brand NEW Digital Version of Final Exit, updated July 2007. […]

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There are hopes for new promising PAS (Physician Assisted Suicide) developments in Germany. Dr. Roger Kusch, a former Senator in the Council of the City of Hamburg, Germany, with responsibilities for the Judiciary, announced last week that he has developed a new method of offering PAS help to terminally and chronically ill patients. The procedures […]

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I hear on good authority that the first steps towards having a citizens’ initiative vote in the state of WASHINGTON in November 2008 (at the time of the general and presidential election) have been taken towards a law permitting physician-assisted suicide for the dying. Concerned groups have just created a PAC called: “It’s My Decision […]

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Australian euthanasia advocates have modified an ordinary coffee pot which they say will enable the terminally ill to concoct a banned suicide drug in their own kitchens. A group of elderly coffee-pot chemists say they were able to make the so-called “peaceful pill” Nembutal by cooking the base materials in a pressurised pot on a […]

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Compassion & Choices of Oregon’s client, Lovelle Svart, continues to blaze new trails as an articulate spokesperson for individual choice at the end of life. You will recall that Lovelle is a 62 year old unique lady who is dying from lung cancer. She was one of the intervenors in the US Supreme Court case […]

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Euthanasia activist, The Rev. George Exoo, moved to new jail pending final extradition hearing On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at 3:30 p.m., The Reverend George David Exoo was transported by federal marshals from the Southeastern Regional Jail, Beaver, West Virginia, to the South Central Regional Jail in Charleston, West Virginia, about a one-hour drive away. […]

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