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

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…e – please read to the end. The main point of this story is that the Final Exit Network seems to have taken some pains to eliminate traces of a November ’08 press release that might interfere with current efforts to improve their public image. –Stephen) Unfortunately, there’s been a small rash of elderly men killing – or attempting to kill – their ill wives in the past couple weeks. One, in Tucson, Arizona, involves a middle-aged man who allegedly…

Chicago NDY Visits Final Exit Network’s Annual Meeting

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…t reads: NOT DEAD YET – We Want to Live!) Last Saturday, June 6, the Final Exit Network held its annual meeting at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Schiller Park, IL, near Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Nine disability activists gave up their Saturday, sitting and standing in the chilly drizzle that day. Our numbers were down for 3 major reasons: There wasn’t much advance warning for the protest, due to fairly short notice regarding the meeting itself…

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

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…18), Fox5 in Atlanta, GA aired a long (over 6 minutes) piece on the Final Exit Network on the 6:00 p.m. news. A similar piece, but edited to give more in-depth coverage of the FEN activists themselves, was aired at 11:00 p.m. Although there are serious problems with the reporting overall, we’re happy to say that the NDY/disability rights perspective was well-represented by Rebecca Ramage-Tuttle. Rebecca is a long-time organizer/activist in both A…

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

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…ntly, as far as this story is concerned, Humphry is the Chair of the Final Exit Network Advisory Board. The Final Exit Network is a group of underground assisted suicide vigilantes who “help” people commit suicide with plastic bags and helium and then clean up the scene to make it look like the deceased individual died a natural death. All of the above is relevant and important to any story about Derek Humphry discussing assisted suicide for peopl…

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

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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 attorney, Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom’s office stated it will convene a grand jury May 9-11 seeking an indictmen…