In case you’re wondering, the Final Exit Network and its “work” was never a secret. In fact, they got a big boost of publicity nearly a year ago, from NY Times Health columnist Jane E. Brody.
The column – and her promotion of Final Exit Network – was addressed in this blog:
After laying out the Oregon law and people’s options in terms of limiting life-sustaining treatment, Brody advances down her self-made slope to the advocacy of organizations like the Final Exit Network:
The network’s Exit Guide program accepts members with various incurable diseases that cause intolerable suffering. Members must be “cognitively functional,” “physically strong enough to perform the required tasks” and “able to procure” the needed items. Helium, when inhaled in place of oxygen, results in a loss of consciousness within a minute and heart stoppage in 15 minutes without causing the unpleasant sensation of air hunger, the authors reported.
She gives full contact information.
She didn’t however, say anything about Exit “Guides” holding your hands down so you couldn’t remove the bag.
Have to wonder how many people ended up finding Final Exit Network as a result of this column and her recommendation.
Follow this link for her column sharing info on Final Exit Network.
Bailout 2008, a poem by David Jeffrey:
Like a bloodied warrior, laying broken and torn.
Like a dying soldier, hopeless and forlorn.
But the blood, it be green, the color of money.
And the soldier is an economy, and it is anything but funny.
Broken are it’s people and shattered are their dreams.
Thanks to the ultra rich and their fool proof schemes.
It is a tragedy with more pain to come.
Finance will be Hell, and their wills will be done.
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