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Final Exit Network in the News – Reframing Themselves and Erasing the Past

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…sue of assisted suicide – and it isn’t the first time they’ve featured the Final Exit Network either. Unsurprisingly, the portrayal of the Final Exit Network and its agenda is misrepresented in the interview included in this recent press coverage: Without a law allowing assisted suicide, groups such as Final Exit Network have stepped in to provide access to volunteers who give what they say is “guidance, education and support” to people who intend…

Chicago NDY Visits Final Exit Network’s Annual Meeting

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…individuals, neither I-1000 nor the Oregon law go far enough. “That is why Final Exit Network pledges, until laws protect the right of every adult to a peaceful, dignified death, Final Exit Network will be there to support those who need relief from their suffering today!” “The Network’s Exit Guide Program is available nationwide,” Goodwin said. “With the Network’s compassionate guidance and support, physically and mentally competent adults in all…

Georgia NDY/Disability Activist on Fox5 Coverage in Atlanta – Final Exit Network

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…of compassion, others call it criminal. Four members of the Georgia-based Final Exit Network were arrested in February for assisted suicide in the death of a Cumming cancer patient. The Final Exit Network is a right to die advocacy group. The group’s president said members will only support certain people with incurable or intolerable conditions, but insisted it wasn’t assisted suicide. At 26-years-old, one Chicago man suffers from an incurable n…

Arizona Daily Star: Derek Humphry and Columnist Push “New Frontier” on Assisted Suicide

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…ie” leaders aren’t exactly flattering to them. Back to Steller, now on the Final Exit Network and Jana Van Voorhis: In April 2007, members of the Final Exit Network — inspired by Humphry’s 1991 suicide self-help book, “Final Exit” — assisted Phoenix resident Jana Van Voorhis in killing herself. Van Voorhis, 59, had long suffered from mental illness, her sister, Viki Thomas, told me Friday. They helped her kill herself anyway. In 2009, then-Maricop…

Minnesota: Dakota Grand Jury Convening This Week to Consider Charges Against Members of Final Exit Network

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…s named in the investigation are Thomas “Ted” Goodwin, former president of Final Exit Network; Roberta Massey, a Final Exit “case coordinator;” Jerry Dincin, then-Final Exit Network president; and Dr. Lawrence Egbert, Final Exit medical director who Newsweek dubbed “The New Doctor Death.” Charges the grand jury will be asked to consider are aiding suicide, conspiracy to commit the crime of aiding suicide and interference with a dead body, accordin…