From the Telegraph-Herald: MINNEAPOLIS — Members of a national right-to-die group are challenging Minnesota’s assisted-suicide law, saying it violates constitutional rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association. The group Final Exit Network is challenging the law after four of its members were indicted in May in the suicide of a Minnesota woman. Prosecutors […]
Editor’s note: This is a post I wrote about the Final Exit Network in March of 2009. It’s very relevant today, given the revelations discussed in yesterday’s post about the Frontline documentary that included a detailed look at the Final Exit Network. Even back in 2009, I wondered – if the allegations about restraining peoples […]
Well, I spent a significant amount of time today going through the video and painstakingly transcribing key quotes, only to find out a little bit later that the Frontline site has posted a transcript. If you heard a heavy sigh late this afternoon, that was me – I was too tired for the more usual […]
One sign of the skewed nature of media coverage and the times we live in is how little time and attention are given to the very real life-and-death situations facing people in the UK in the face of draconian shredding of the social safety net for disabled people. Some of that shredding is already done […]
SunThisweek has a new story about the Final Exit Network (FEN) and the suicide of Doreen Dunn by reporter Laura Adelmann. This article focuses largely on comments and reactions from friends, neighbors and local Minnesotans. Of most importance and interest for readers of this blog, the article also includes excellent comments from Gordie Haug, a […]
From the Baltimore Sun: HASTINGS, Minn. — A Minnesota grand jury has indicted a national right-to-die group and several members for their actions in the 2007 suicide of a suburban Minneapolis woman, prosecutors announced Monday. The 17-count indictment charges the medical director of Final Exit Network, Lawrence Egbert of Baltimore, and three other officials with […]
Right now, this latest story involving the Final Exit Network (FEN) is getting only local coverage, but it could become a national story, depending on the outcome. From the story, by reporter Laura Adelmann: Apple Valley woman may have killed herself using information from Final Exit Network In a March 26 letter to a defense […]
I’ll be the first to admit that there are some bioethicists that can and do write with intellectual honesty and engage in rigorous analysis. However, those qualities are not required in order to gain respect in the field of bioethics. I offer Jacob Appel and Peter Singer as Exhibits A and B. (Those appear to […]
Readers of this blog are familiar with the Final Exit Network (FEN), the assisted suicide vigilante cult that has gotten into legal trouble in two states over the roles members of FEN played in facilitating the suicides of a man in Georgia and a woman in Arizona. The common denominator in both cases is the […]
On January 7, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an op-ed by Wendell Stephenson, current president of the Final Exit Network (FEN). “Ensuring death with dignity” is no longer freely available at the AJC site, but the same essay was published in December last year in the Metrowest Daily News and can still be read here. It’s […]
