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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 it contains what is possibly the most blatantly false claim about the Final Exit Network (FEN) “activities” and how the laws …

Ron Seigel: “My Confrontation with Kevorkian’s Lawyer”

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Today’s entry – an article by Ron Seigel – seems timely on the 10th anniversary of Kevorkian’s sentencing in the second-degree murder conviction for his televised “execution” of Thomas Youk. Sentencing day was also incarceration day. Kevorkian was taken from the courtroom in handcuffs. But Ron’s article doesn’t stop there. He also discusses some historical medical abuses of infants with disabilities and discusses the social factors that can drive…

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 explain the free hand they gave to Earl Wettstein, former president of the Final Exit Network, in spinning and outright lying about his organiza…

Viewing Not Dead Yet – and Other Blogs – on Facebook

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Confession: the instructions below have been only slightly modified from an original set of instructions written by Dick Sobsey at the ICAD blog. I’ve already suggested that people who check this blog regularly should bookmark the ICAD blog. Similarly, substitute “ICAD” for “Not Dead Yet” in the instructions below and you can view ICAD easily on Facebook. Ripped off and slightly edited instructions below: Facebook users may want to follow Not Dea…

Clarification on Facebook Entry

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One person has submitted a comment expressing a concern that the instructions regarding access to this blog on facebook. Since I was sloppily wrote with facebook users as my readers, I forgot that people who don’t use it might think the blog was actually moving there – which would mean only facebook users could access the blog. That is not happening. This blog will continue to be readable in whatever way you are currently accessing it. The facebo…