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

…he net and archives them. The site contains the files and material from websites that don’t even exist any more. The site is that extensive and that good. (The paragraph below has been corrected to report the appropriate cut-off of archiving of the FEN website) The press release isn’t there, either. In fact, the last archive of site files occurred in August 2008. That is very unusual – I won’t even hazard a guess as to why there aren’t archives fo…

The Wreckage Suicide “Helpers” Leave Behind – A letter from a bereaved family member

…t her guts up from a web site and book called “The Final Exit”! She also visited a site called “Ashers”. They all convinced her that she could take her life painlessly, and she did! The site told her verbatim, what to drink, what to eat, what meds to take, the position to sit in to avoid leaving a big mess, and finally, how to “hook” herself up to the tanks. She was a brilliant girl, and followed those rules to the finest of detail! The Officer th…

Robin Williams and the Hypocrisy of Suicide Prevention Organizations

…sed to Final Exit’s mission, just how they’re delivering the message. “I visited the website and it’s populated by elderly folks who are at the end of a very long life and are in pain,” she said. “That’s a whole different issue to me.” Let me translate – Springer has just shrugged off any concern about any group that encourages and facilitates the suicides of “elderly folks” because it’s “different” than what she deals with. As of 2010, neither th…

NDY Public Comment on OPTN Proposal Regarding Living Organ Donation by Persons with Certain Fatal Diseases

…al of Personhood,” Hastings Center Report 42, no. 4, (2012), p. 15 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229014978_Comfort_Care_as_Denial_of_Personhood “It’s not pain but ‘existential distress’ that leads people to assisted suicide, study suggests”, Washington Post, May 26, 2017 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/05/24/its-not-pain-but-existential-distress-that-leads-people-to-assisted-suicide-study-suggests/?utm_term=….

NDY Public Comment On Federal Healthcare Interim Final Rule In Response To COVID

…virus-related deaths in the U.S. are linked to nursing facilities. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html. [5] See https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/896882268/one-mans-covid-19-death-raises-the-worst-fears-of-many-people-with-disabilities. [6] See https://www.nationaldisabilityinstitute.org/reports/extra-costs-living-with-disability/. [7] 42 U.S.C. § 1396(a)(47)(B) [8] See e.g., 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(e)(14)(H); 42 C.F….