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PBS Airs Frontline “The Suicide Plan” – Video Tape Exposes Final Exit Network’s Big Lie

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…erged in the documentary. When the news of arrests of members of the Final Exit Network (FEN) in Georgia made the news in February, 2009 – there was a disturbing allegation in addition to assisting/facilitating the suicide of John Celmer, a man who had gone through tough cancer treatments, but was cancer-free at the time of his death. The following is an excerpt posted in the NDY blog taken from an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution – an…

Blast From the Past – 2009 Musings on Final Exit Network, Zealotry and Groupthink

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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 hands were true – what the likelihood was of “assistance” crossing the line to “murder.” Of course, now that we know that…

AP Story Quotes NDY on Final Exit Network

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The latest AP story on the Final Exit Network investigation is out. This link is to SignonSanDiego.com: Barbara Coombs Lee, president of the national advocacy group Compassion and Choices, said prosecuting assisted suicide only drives it underground. “It’s not the way to make it safe. The plastic bag is sort of the end-of-life equivalent of the coat hanger,” she said. There’s only one way to interpret this spin by Coombs Lee. The solution to the…

Georgia: Response Letters to op-ed by Final Exit Network (FEN) president Wendell Stephenson

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…n 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 the usual conflation of terminal illness with chronic illness, sensationalist language describing FEN members and supporters as victims of oppression, etc. This bl…

Minnesota: Some Charges Against Final Exit Members Thrown Out, Two Defendants and Serious Charges Remain

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It’s been awhile since we’ve written about the Final Exit Network (FEN), but there are new developments in the criminal case against members of the group. You can read earlier posts on the case in Minnesota here, here, here and here. Here’s an excerpt from a summary on NPR on the Frontline site (Frontline producers are big fans of FEN): A Minnesota judge has ruled that part of the state’s law against assisted suicide is unconstitutional, in a rul…