The apparent suicide by Phyllis Hixson, in Athens County OH, is being investigated for possible involvement by members of the Final Exit Network (FEN).
The group claims that no one from FEN was present. But that doesn’t matter to Hixson’s younger sister, Jerri Rosson:
She blames the Final Exit Network for providing the plans and support, if not an in-person presence, behind her sister’s death.
Rosson said her sister never mentioned a death wish. She hadn’t heard of the Final Exit Network until investigators arrived at her sister’s home.
“I think it’s wrong, totally wrong. We all have a purpose in life, and it’s not up to us to decide when that purpose is fulfilled,” Rosson said yesterday while tending to funeral arrangements.
“She had a lot of good to give. She was not done. I feel she was rushed into it.”
Meanwhile, Dr. Larry Egbert is out on the road, doing his best to distort and misrepresent the mission of FEN:
“What would you do if your dog is dying and riddled with cancer? You’d take him to the veterinarian and the vet would put him down,” said Dr. Larry Egbert “What would you do if your father was dying of the same kind of horrible cancer? Nothing much, so your father gets to suffer and your dog doesn’t?”
Egbert has been charged in connection to his alleged role in the death of John Celmer, a man who was cancer-free at the time of his death, but distressed about his physical appearance.
Apparently, Egbert thinks it’s best to downplay the wide-open criteria that FEN used to brag about.
Obviously, Egbert and his FEN pals don’t have much faith in their position – or they wouldn’t feel compelled to lie about it. –Stephen Drake