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Arizona Daily Star Allows Final Exit Network Activist Free Rein in Terms of “Spin” and Outright Lies

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The Arizona Daily Star may just win the “lowest editorial standards of the year” for this year. I hope so, anyway. I’d hate to see what it would take to beat the combination of unconcern for factual accuracy and the apparent ignorance of criminal investigations in their own state. That is the only way to … Continue reading Arizona Daily Star Allows Final Exit Network Activist Free Rein in Terms of “Spin” and Outright Lies →

Timothy Quill on the Final Exit Network – Is He Lying Deliberately or Just Incompetent?

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It’s been dizzying trying to keep up with the onslaught of one-sided, sloppy, careless, misleading coverage of the Final Exit Network. It gets hard to know what to pick and where to begin. Today, though, one article jumped out through the pile of slush masquerading as journalism. It isn’t the worst example of coverage, but … Continue reading Timothy Quill on the Final Exit Network – Is He Lying Deliberately or Just Incompetent? →

Final Exit Advisory Board Members Supporters of Parents Who Kill – Or Want to Kill – Their Disabled Kids

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In case you thought that the so-called “right to die” movement was limited to support for voluntary euthanasia, we have some info on related activities of two of the advisory board members of the Final Exit Network. In addition, these two FEN advisors have cosigned an appeal for donations to a defense fund for the … Continue reading Final Exit Advisory Board Members Supporters of Parents Who Kill – Or Want to Kill – Their Disabled Kids →

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Columnist Asks All the Wrong Questions About Lessons to be Learned from Final Exit Network

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It’s hard to know just where to begin with the pile of mush published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution yesterday by columnist Jay Bookman. “Time to pull suicide debate out of the shadows” starts out promisingly enough, accurately describes the practices and “eligibility” criteria necessary to get “help” from Final Exit Network. That puts him way … Continue reading Atlanta Journal-Constitution Columnist Asks All the Wrong Questions About Lessons to be Learned from Final Exit Network →

Reality Vs. Myths of Pet Euthanasia (Part 2)

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Last week, there was a small burst of the “we’re kinder to animals than to humans” crap in the Australian press, courtesy of Peter Baume, a former Senator and an emeritus professor of Community Health at the University of New South Wales. Baume was part of a panel discussion on euthanasia in Sydney, Australia. The … Continue reading Reality Vs. Myths of Pet Euthanasia (Part 2) →